From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 7 1:27:59 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail2.netcologne.de (mail2.netcologne.de [194.8.194.103]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E954637B980 for ; Thu, 7 Sep 2000 01:27:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bagabeedaboo.security.at12.de (dial-213-168-73-207.netcologne.de [213.168.73.207]) by mail2.netcologne.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA27445; Thu, 7 Sep 2000 10:27:53 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from localhost (localhost.security.at12.de [127.0.0.1]) by bagabeedaboo.security.at12.de (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id e878JKM00507; Thu, 7 Sep 2000 10:19:20 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from pherman@frenchfries.net) Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2000 10:19:19 +0200 (CEST) From: Paul Herman To: S Zaveloff Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD will not boot In-Reply-To: <39B53943.90E8D811@onr.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 5 Sep 2000, S Zaveloff wrote: > I recently purchased the "FreeBSD Handbook" that comes with > FreeBSD 4.1 from Walnut Creek CDROM. I installed it according > to the instructions and configured X-windows, etc. Everything > seemed to go Ok but when I tried to reboot, it started to load the > kernel, I got the copyright message and then the following error > message: > > Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode > fault virtual address = 0xbf57e4c > fault code = supervisor read, page not present > . . . > > The machine then stops. > > I am using a Dell 233 MHz Pentium with 128 MB of RAM. I installed > FreeBSD in a primary partition on the last 2 GB of a 4.3 GB Western > Digital hard disk (disk no. 3). Hmmm this is a tough one, because it happens so early (before the system comes up). If I were to start to "debug" this one, my first guess would be to suspect the memory first. Are you able to remove some banks of RAM, or better yet, swap them out completely? Also, be sure you aren't overclocking. -Paul. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message