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From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb>
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Subject: Re: problems compiling the kernel
To: bstewart@student.longview.cc.mo.us (Brian Stewart)
Date: Tue, 8 Oct 1996 09:46:09 -0700 (PDT)
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In-Reply-To: <199610081114.LAA01609@student.longview.cc.mo.us> from "Brian Stewart" at Oct 8, 96 11:12:45 am
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Brian Stewart wrote:
> 
> All right,  I just switched my FreeBSD (2.1.5) machine from a 386 to a 486.
> I yanked the hared drive from the 386 and put it in the 486. I also put 4 4
> meg simms and
> 4 1 meg simms in.  There are no post errors on bootup.

	are all the simms the same speed?
	if so, try pulling all but 2 4MB simms
	find two that work
	then add another pair use stickers to mark those 
	that work
	finally add the last pair
	the goal is too identify the simms that are bad
	and get rid of them 


> The problem that I keep running into is that when I try to do a make
> depend I keep getting this error in some form...
>   
> /kernel.old: pid 863 (cpp), uid 0: exited on signal 11
> cc: internal compiler error: program cpp got fatel signal 11
> 
> Any ideas or helpful hints?  I need to get this machine up and running on a
> stable kernel as soon as possible.  It
> runs the email for the entire student body.
>  
> Hopefully this is enought information, if not let me know and I will give
> more.
> 
> Brian Stewart
> sysadmin@student.longview.cc.mo.us
> bstewart@student.longview.cc.mo.us
>