Date: Mon, 13 Oct 1997 00:14:57 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Gaetan Feige <Gaetan@vsg.mobistar.be> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Pb installing 2.2 Release on a Pentium Pro Natoma chipset revision 2 mother board. Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971013001402.9609j-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19971005231916.007ad5e0@195.61.128.100>
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On Sun, 5 Oct 1997, Gaetan Feige wrote: > I have already installed multiple times FreeBSD on many machines. > > I just got a Pentium Pro processor on a Natoma motherboard chipset. It is > impossible to install the 2.2 Release on this machine. > > I also have an old Pentium 66 processor, if I switch all my cards, hard > drives, and memory to the old machine then the install goes fine. > > The problem is that I systematically get this message : > > Unable to link /kernel into place > > If I open the debuging window I see : > > ....normal stuff > man/man1/Xmseconfig.1.gz > 100 blocks > pid 124 (sh), uid 0 : exited on signal 4 (core dumped) > illegal instruction - core dumped > > What does the install script do that could cause an illegal instruction & > core dump ? Wierd. Never seen that. I suppose you could drop to the Emergency Holographic Shell (alt-F4) and ``cp /kernel.GENERIC /kernel''. I'd have to look at this in progress so see what the shell script does. You might check the memory out in this machine. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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