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To: jstevens@rapidnet.com
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Subject: Re: Help!!!!!! 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 30 Jul 1996 01:14:27 MDT."
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From: David Greenman <dg@root.com>
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Date: Tue, 30 Jul 1996 00:22:50 -0700
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>I'm using a computer that I just formatted the hard drive.  I put the 
>disk in and it does its thing and then all of a sudden it says . . .
>
>This is the exact screen:
>------------------------------------------------------------------------Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode
>fault virtual address  = 0x0
>fault code             = supervisor read, page not present
>instruction pointer    = 0x8:0xf018c82d
>code segment           = base 0x0, limit 0xfffff, type 0x1b
>                       = DPL 0, pres 1, def32 1, gran 1
>processor eflags       = interrupt enabled, resume, IOPL = 0
>current process        = 1 (swapper)
>interrupt mask         = net tty bio
>panic: page fault
>
>suncing disks... done
>Automatic reboot in 15 seconds - press a key on the console to abort
>------------------------------------------------------------------------
>. . . and then it resets the computer and does the same thing all over 
>again.  How can I fix this or what is wrong???
>
>I hope you can assist me with this,  thanks in advance.

   It would help if you could tell us about the machine that this is occuring
on - CPU, memory, disk controller, etc., and which version of FreeBSD you're
installing.

-DG

David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project