From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 25 22:28:26 1996 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id WAA09698 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 25 Dec 1996 22:28:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts11-line4.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.119]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id WAA09693 for ; Wed, 25 Dec 1996 22:28:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.2/8.6.12) with SMTP id WAA00296; Wed, 25 Dec 1996 22:28:15 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 25 Dec 1996 22:28:14 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: ttsai@pobox.com cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: kernel panic during install (2.1.5/6) In-Reply-To: <199612231125.FAA30830@edison.ebicom.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 23 Dec 1996, Tim Tsai wrote: > I am getting kernel panics or SIGSEGV from gcc when installing 2.1.6 > and 2.1.5. With 2.1.6 I can usually get a system going but I have yet > to compile a new kernel without a SIGSEGV on gcc. Next I tried 2.1.5 > and now I will get a kernel panic (page fault) before the installation > is even completed. I am going to try different hardware tomorrow but > though I ask on the list first. The configuration follows: Can you trace it to one specific action, or does it occur seemingly randominly? If it's the latter case then you probably have some bad RAM or cache module. > Asus X-P55T2P4, ATX Pentium Motherboard (440FX I think) Can't say it's a motherboard defect. :) Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major