From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 28 02:53:27 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id CAA09554 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 28 Sep 1995 02:53:27 -0700 Received: from VX23.CC.MONASH.EDU.AU (vx23.cc.monash.edu.au [130.194.1.23]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id CAA09549 for ; Thu, 28 Sep 1995 02:53:19 -0700 Received: from "port 1551"@fcit-m1.fcit.monash.edu.au by vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au (PMDF V4.3-12 #8933) id <01HVTGR8FRDS9AIHG4@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au>; Thu, 28 Sep 1995 17:48:22 +1000 Received: from FCIT-M1/SpoolDir by fcit-m1.fcit.monash.edu.au (Mercury 1.21) ; 28 Sep 95 17:48:22 +1000 Received: from SpoolDir by FCIT-M1 (Mercury 1.21); 28 Sep 95 17:48:03 +1000 Date: Thu, 28 Sep 1995 17:48:00 +0000 From: KEVIN LUXFORD Subject: Problems with Using boot.flp to establish BSD To: questions@FreeBSD.org Reply-to: kluxford@bs.monash.edu.au Message-id: <11F6D832B99@fcit-m1.fcit.monash.edu.au> Organization: FCIT Monash Uni (Clayton) X-Mailer: Pegasus Mail/Windows (v1.11a) Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Priority: normal Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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