From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 3 02:26:46 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id CAA00561 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 3 Apr 1996 02:26:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [204.216.27.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id CAA00536 for ; Wed, 3 Apr 1996 02:26:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.eskimo.com (root@mail.eskimo.com [204.122.16.4]) by who.cdrom.com (8.6.12/8.6.11) with ESMTP id CAA25754 for ; Wed, 3 Apr 1996 02:16:08 -0800 Received: from eskimo.com (dpk@eskimo.com [204.122.16.13]) by mail.eskimo.com (8.7.3/8.6.12) with SMTP id CAA07325; Wed, 3 Apr 1996 02:14:46 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 3 Apr 1996 02:14:37 -0800 (PST) From: David Kirchner To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au Subject: Re: Asus PVI-486SP3 motherboard problems In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- On Tue, 2 Apr 1996, Doug White wrote: :On Tue, 2 Apr 1996, David Kirchner wrote: :> :> I'm having problems getting FreeBSD installed on my computer. :> While installing the files it either gpf's or kernel panics and then :> sometimes it locks the keyboard. : :Could you give us what the panic is, where it hangs up in the :installation, etc? I don't have enough info to isolate even remotely :what's going on :-) Sorry about that before, I forgot that. Here it is (formatting will probably be wrong) : last ptr: 0x8:0xf01dc20e 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 = idle int mask = bio I tried installing it again following Michael Smith's recommendation to disable the Write Back cache, and when I did I got the exact same panic (same last ptr and everything) but instead of panicing while it was idle it said 1 (sysinstall) :Nice machine...that sb32 pnp will probably give you problems if you can't :disable pnp... Yeah, if it's even possible. I'll check the manuals again but this may requre a call to Creative. - ----------------------------------------------------------------- : David Kirchner : dpk@eskimo.com : http://www.eskimo.com/~dpk/ : - ----------------------------------------------------------------- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQB1AwUBMWJPkDO4yHMJ7P9xAQG2LgL9EOWG5m19S9RdRdLTQkQ8RsBhInKf6Ef3 sePevBbf8xz/UhsN3WkxIjSSICarn2PS3InCUKffppU5k0YjGpUmbEejB71x2hVY LtDruWTBTwb7IUQKhZ1IauWj8c+XZ76O =hbbC -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----