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Date:      Mon, 5 Feb 1996 11:28:18 +0100 (MET)
From:      j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
To:        bugs@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 2.1 install problem (fwd)
Message-ID:  <199602051028.LAA04850@uriah.heep.sax.de>

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From: Simon Bond <bondsc@tcp.co.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: 2.1 install problem
Date: Sat, 27 Jan 1996 18:04:05 +0000
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jamont@netcom.com wrote:

>I'm trying to install FreeBSD 2.1, when I try to boot the distribution 
>boot floppy things proceed until I get:

>...
>root fs is 1000Kb compiled in MFS

>Fatal trap 18:        integer divide fault while in kernel mode
>instruction pointer:  0x8:0xf0197f1b
>...

I have a similar problem.

I don't actually get a fatal trap error, but nothing happens at all.

I have tried booting with the -c option, typing 'visual' and disabling / 
configuring hardware I don't have / have. This doesn't help.
However, I have noticed that if I disable the keyboard (Input - System 
console driver) then I do get beyond that point - The install menu 
appears but of course, I can't use the keyboard.

That may sound strange (Disabling the keyboard to get it to work) but I 
have tried it many times and that is definately the case.

I'm also using FreeBSD 2.1 slakware release and my system is:

486DX266 with 16Mg RAM, PCI bus, AHA2940Wide PCI SCSI card - 2Gb Seagate 
Wide Hawk, 2Gb Capella Fast SCSI 2 and Toshiba XM3401 4x speed SCSI 
CDROM, Diamond stealth 64 2Mb VRAM, NE2000 compatible e/card.

but I'm certain there are no conflicts with the above since it works fine 
in 95, NT, Linux with no problem


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