From owner-freebsd-bugs Sun Dec 3 11:44:17 1995 Return-Path: owner-bugs Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id LAA19160 for bugs-outgoing; Sun, 3 Dec 1995 11:44:17 -0800 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id LAA19154 for ; Sun, 3 Dec 1995 11:44:12 -0800 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id UAA28700; Sun, 3 Dec 1995 20:42:19 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id UAA22239; Sun, 3 Dec 1995 20:42:09 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.9) id TAA03957; Sun, 3 Dec 1995 19:51:56 +0100 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199512031851.TAA03957@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Install Problem To: dstraub@cogentlink.com (David Straub) Date: Sun, 3 Dec 1995 19:51:56 +0100 (MET) Cc: bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: from "David Straub" at Nov 30, 95 01:57:31 pm X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 536 Sender: owner-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk As David Straub wrote: > > Two possibly unrelated issues are preventing my installation from floppy > disks. > > First, the Boot floppy disk often hangs a half-dozen times when it comes to > Uncompressing kernel... [...] > > [...] "panic: page fault syncing disks" Both seem to be related and are most likely bad memory, bad cache, and/or too aggressive memory timing. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)