From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 21 12:16:07 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id MAA13125 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 21 Sep 1997 12:16:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from eexi.gr (root@[195.170.21.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id MAA13117 for ; Sun, 21 Sep 1997 12:16:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from aurora.eexi.gr (aristof@[193.92.44.70]) by eexi.gr (8.8.7/8.7.3) with ESMTP id WAA12044 for ; Sun, 21 Sep 1997 22:16:02 -0200 Message-Id: <199709220016.WAA12044@eexi.gr> From: "Dimitris Alexandris" To: Subject: panic: double fault Date: Sun, 21 Sep 1997 22:13:37 +0300 X-MSMail-Priority: High X-Priority: 1 X-Mailer: Microsoft Internet Mail 4.70.1161 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-7 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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. Unfortunately after I created the startup boot floppy as per instructions and booted up the system the familiar colour screen with the choice of configuration, novice, expert, quickstart setup, etc etc never came up despite my repeated efforts. All I was getting at the end was teh message 'panic: double fault' and the computer just hang up saying 'syncing diks...' Having failed on the server, I did exactly the same on another three clients on our LAN (they are based both on Intel Pentium and Cyrix 6x86 150 MHz CPUs) and on all occasions the setup screen successfully came up eventually! I even had success on my AMD 486 DX2 66MHz computer at home! Any ideas please? Thanks very much in advance for your time. Dimitris _______________________________________ ___ | Tel: +30 1 8253634 Fax: +30 1 8835645 | \__\_____/~~~\___ | | evercom@lords.com |________________\_______===== //}+ | http://www.damon.gr/evercom | @' ~~~| /~~~ | | Internet Communications Consultants | (+) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~