Date: Thu, 28 Sep 1995 17:48:00 +0000 From: KEVIN LUXFORD <KLUXFORD@fcit-m1.fcit.monash.edu.au> To: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Problems with Using boot.flp to establish BSD Message-ID: <11F6D832B99@fcit-m1.fcit.monash.edu.au>
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Hi all,
Following my message of a couple of days ago I have tried to load
FreeBSD by booting the machine from a floppy containing boot.flp as
created by rawrite.exe. I have tried FTP from my local mirror site
(physics.usyd.edu.au), I have tried a parallel lap-link cable using
lp0, I have tried FTP to my development machine which runs BSD and
from which I have tried making my CDROM drive visible, as per my
previous note to you. I have also tried copying all the bin floppies
to diskette and loading from these. However, I get a page fault
error, something like the following which I obtained by asking for
the debugging flag to be turned on in Options and by pressing alt-F2
before running the system generation process. I am able to delete
the existing disk partitions OK. I can create a new FreeBSD
partition OK. I can create three slices, /, swap, /usr. The root
directory, / , is about 30 MB, the swap partition is 16 MB (for an 8
MB machine) while the /usr partition is is the remainder of the disk,
about 68 MB.
The system generation process performs the newfs function and copies
the root data to /stand, and eventually ends up with the following
error screen:
DEBUG: strcmp(/dos, /usr) returns -17
DEBUG: Starting an emergency holographic shell over on the 4th screen
DEBUG: Generating /etc/fstab file
DEBUG: mkdir(/proc)
DEBUG: mkdir(/proc..)
DEBUG: Wrote out /etc/fstab file
DEBUG Attempting to extract root image from (null) device
DEBUG: Wrote out /etc/resolv.conf
DEBUG: Appended entry fro 130.194.74.64 to /etc/hosts
DEBUG: Executing command 'ifconfig ix0 inet 130.194.74.64 netmask
0xffffff00 (Magic=0)
DEBUG: Information: 'Command output is on debugging screen - type
ALT-F2 to see it'
Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode
fault virtual address = 0xefdc4260
fault code = supervisor write, page not present
instruction pointer = 0x8:0xf0199f36
code segment =base 0x0, limit 0xfffff, type 0x1b
=DPL 0, pres 1, def32, gran 1
processor eflags =interrupt enabled, resume, IOPL = 0
current process = 59 (ifconfig)
interrupt mask = net tty
At which point, the machin hangs. Can you see what is going wrong?
Thanks
Kevin
Kevin Luxford
Dept of Business Systems
Monash University, CLAYTON 3168, Australia
Phone: +61 3 9905 2421 Fax: +61 3 9905 5159
email: kluxford@bs.monash.edu.au
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