From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 7 19:04:05 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8275337B401 for ; Wed, 7 May 2003 19:04:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pd5mo2so.prod.shaw.ca (shawidc-mo1.cg.shawcable.net [24.71.223.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8555943FBF for ; Wed, 7 May 2003 19:04:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cpressey@catseye.mb.ca) Received: from pd2mr3so.prod.shaw.ca (pd2mr3so-ser.prod.shaw.ca [10.0.141.108])2003))freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 07 May 2003 19:58:13 -0600 (MDT) Received: from pn2ml6so.prod.shaw.ca (pn2ml6so-qfe0.prod.shaw.ca [10.0.121.150]) by l-daemon (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.14 (built Mar 18 2003)) with ESMTP id <0HEJ00IGCPH1N8@l-daemon> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 07 May 2003 19:58:13 -0600 (MDT) Received: from www.kallisti.ca (h24-70-180-74.wp.shawcable.net [24.70.180.74]) 2003))freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 07 May 2003 19:58:13 -0600 (MDT) Date: Wed, 07 May 2003 20:58:44 -0500 From: Chris Pressey In-reply-to: <20030507003033.1103c7e4.cpressey@catseye.mb.ca> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-id: <20030507205844.576412a6.cpressey@catseye.mb.ca> Organization: Cat's Eye Technologies MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.8.10 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.8) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT References: <20030507003033.1103c7e4.cpressey@catseye.mb.ca> Subject: Re: panic during install: "page fault while in kernel mode" X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 08 May 2003 02:04:05 -0000 On Wed, 07 May 2003 00:30:33 -0500 Chris Pressey wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm trying to install FreeBSD 4.8-RC2 (just because it happens to be > the latest version of FreeBSD that I have a CD for) on a second-hand > PC. > > The computer's BIOS ("Award Modular BIOS 4.50PG") claims that it is a > "6x86-P166+". I don't know the make of the motherboard (there are no > obvious identifying marks that I could find on the portion that's > visible with the case open.) Figured out what was causing it to page fault! Had to disable "CPU External Cache" in the BIOS settings. It's installing now :) -Chris