From owner-freebsd-bugs Sun Sep 21 01:50:36 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id BAA22346 for bugs-outgoing; Sun, 21 Sep 1997 01:50:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id BAA22341 for ; Sun, 21 Sep 1997 01:50:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id KAA22822; Sun, 21 Sep 1997 10:50:29 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.7/8.8.5) id KAA07998; Sun, 21 Sep 1997 10:24:12 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19970921102412.LR13220@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Sun, 21 Sep 1997 10:24:12 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: mr_b1@ix.netcom.com (Larry Bailey) Subject: Re: Panic: Double Fault when attempting to boot up References: <3424D2AC.899@ix.netcom.com> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.60_p2-3,5,8-9 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <3424D2AC.899@ix.netcom.com>; from Larry Bailey on Sep 21, 1997 00:54:21 -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Larry Bailey wrote: > I have FreeBSD 2.2.2 and while trying to bootup from floopy or CD, I get > the following message and the system hangs: > > PANIC: Double Fault Take out 16 MB, or add another 16 MB for the installation. This is a known problem, and mentioned in ERRATA.TXT on the FTP sites (but didn't make it into ERRATA.TXT on the CD-ROM, apparently). You can run it fine with 48 MB once it's installed. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)