Date: Sat, 25 Nov 1995 11:30:05 -0800 (PST) From: Julian Elischer <julian@ref.tfs.com> To: smm@uunet.uu.net (Steve Mansfield) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Boot disk not letting me boot. Message-ID: <199511251930.LAA17053@ref.tfs.com> In-Reply-To: <QQzrjk11680.199511251211@triryche.uu.net> from "Steve Mansfield" at Nov 25, 95 07:11:59 am
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how much ram do you have? you need 5MB for the boot floppy/install as it holds an entire system in ram but you only need 4M once you've got it installed.. you DID do a BINARY mode ftp transfer right? > > I'm trying to boot my system with a freebsd boot disk (boot.flp dd'ed to a > floppy), and I actually get to the point where I get the boot prompt, and > regardless of whether I just tell it to boot, or go into -c mode, and > diable all of the drivers I don't have devices for, I get a "page fault > while in kernel" error. Can someone explain what I need to do to get this > to boot completely? I get the error after it does the device probe. > > Steve Mansfield |The captain frowned. "It's a funny thing," he said, "but > smm@uunet.uu.net |why is it that the heathens and the barbarians seem to have > |the best places to go when they die?" > |Small Gods - Terry Pratchett >
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