From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 17 0:19:36 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from axl.ops.uunet.co.za (axl.ops.uunet.co.za [196.31.1.175]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3CF1137B637 for ; Mon, 17 Apr 2000 00:19:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sheldonh@axl.ops.uunet.co.za) Received: from sheldonh (helo=axl.ops.uunet.co.za) by axl.ops.uunet.co.za with local-esmtp (Exim 3.13 #1) id 12h5oP-00037L-00; Mon, 17 Apr 2000 09:19:13 +0200 From: Sheldon Hearn To: Dennis Ostrovsky Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Install problems - multiple frees In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 15 Apr 2000 20:28:27 -0400." Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2000 09:19:13 +0200 Message-ID: <11986.955955953@axl.ops.uunet.co.za> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 15 Apr 2000 20:28:27 -0400, Dennis Ostrovsky wrote: > Booting from floppies. At various points during various installation I get > a kernel panic, multiple frees is the error, and then it reboots. Is this > a sign of bad hardware? Is my RAM bad? I have never had trouble in the > past, but recently weird stuff has been happening both in Windows and on > the BSD partition on my primary drive. My first suspect in trying to sort this out on my own box would be hardware, yes. You haven't recently started overclocking, have you? If so, try running your CPU at the prescribed speed. If not, it's time to make sure your CPU cooling equipment is still functional, that your pluggable bits haven't come loose. Failing that, it's probably time to start swapping bits out. :-) Ciao, Sheldon. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message