From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 21 21:23:52 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id VAA09419 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 21 Sep 1997 21:23:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu ([128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id VAA09404 for ; Sun, 21 Sep 1997 21:23:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id VAA04845; Sun, 21 Sep 1997 21:23:44 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 21 Sep 1997 21:23:44 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Dimitris Alexandris cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: panic: double fault In-Reply-To: <199709220016.WAA12044@eexi.gr> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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