Date: Fri, 9 Feb 1996 19:05:26 +0100 (MET) From: Søren Schmidt <sos@DeepCore.dk> To: swarthy@dvdt.thetasys.com (Swarthy) Cc: sos@freebsd.org, bugs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Console driver causes panic!? Message-ID: <199602091805.TAA00515@DeepCore.dk> In-Reply-To: <199602082317.SAA12095@dvdt.thetasys.com> from "Swarthy" at Feb 8, 96 06:17:40 pm
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In reply to Swarthy who wrote:
>
> Hello, i recently encountered a strange problem.
>
> While trying to install FreeBSD onto my system, it would crash just before
> the (nice) color menu driven install screen. Crash with a panic: page fault
> that is. So, upon trying a bunch of things with the driver selector, i found
> the problem to be in the console driver. If i removed EVERYTHING except the
> console driver, it would still crash, but then, if i added all the stuff i
> needed, and left out the console driver, it would boot fine, and jump right
> into the menu install screen...but i couldn't use my keyboard of course..
>
> My setup is as follows:
>
> 386 40Mhz no FPU - Desktop (NOT a laptop)
> 1 105MB IDE hd..
> 4 MB Ram (30 pin)
> One regular ISA serial port, HD controller.
> One NE2000 ethernet card, at IRQ 9.
> SVGA Card (Oak 77)
> No mouse, one 1.44 MB Floppy, standard keyboard.
Uhm, FreeBSD-2.1.0 wont install in 4MB, you'll need atleast 5MB for an
installation to succed. This is the problem here not the console driver.
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Søren Schmidt (sos@FreeBSD.org) FreeBSD Core Team
Even more code to hack -- will it ever end
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