From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 17 20:45:13 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from andrsn.stanford.edu (andrsn.Stanford.EDU [171.66.112.163]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0EDD037B597 for ; Fri, 17 Mar 2000 20:45:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu) Received: from localhost (andrsn@localhost.stanford.edu [127.0.0.1]) by andrsn.stanford.edu (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id UAA51818; Fri, 17 Mar 2000 20:41:34 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 20:41:34 -0800 (PST) From: Annelise Anderson To: Chip Cc: "seafug@dub.net" , "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: Install fails with 'signal 11' In-Reply-To: <38D2F0A2.470E37D6@wiegand.org> 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 Somewhere someone maintains a signal 11 FAQ (you can search the mailing lists for it). This FAQ explains how to determine whether it's bad memory, which often produces a signal 11 and something you want to consider with a new machine, or whether it's a software problem. I had a laptop installation that produced signal 11s on buildworlds and I determined it was not a memory problem. Annelise On Fri, 17 Mar 2000, Chip wrote: > I have a brand new machine with AMD Athlon 500, 128 megs ram, cd/dvd, > 6.4 g and 4 gig harddrives, sb soundcard. > When I try to install fbsd 3.3 I get all the way to the choose a install > method, such as cdrom or ftp etc, and I get a signal 11 error and the > machine reboots by itself. > What could be causing this? I don't see any info on this in the book The > Complete FreeBSD. > Chip W > www.wiegand.org > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message