Date: Sun, 21 Sep 1997 21:23:44 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Dimitris Alexandris <evercom@lords.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: panic: double fault Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970921212258.4716O-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <199709220016.WAA12044@eexi.gr>
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On Sun, 21 Sep 1997, Dimitris Alexandris wrote: > May I just bring to your attention this problem I encountered when I tried > to install my brand new copy of FreeBSD 2.2.2 on our ex Win NT 4.0 server. > > The machine is built round the Cyrix 6x86 166 MHz CPU and has 48 Mb of RAM > with a Sony CDROM and a Quantum Fireball 1.2 Gb HD. We don't quite know why, but the boot floppy will double fault if you have 48mb of RAM installed. Pull out one of your SIMMs, install, then put it back in when finished. It doesn't do it on any of the newer floppies, but it does on the 2.2.2-RELEASE floppy. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major Spam routed to /dev/null by Procmail | Death to Cyberpromo
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