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Date:      Wed, 10 Apr 1996 06:44:45 +0100
From:      "Gary Palmer" <gpalmer@FreeBSD.ORG>
To:        "Jason T. Nelson" <jason@purcell.jlc.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: kernel puking on boot 
Message-ID:  <10460.829115085@palmer.demon.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 10 Apr 1996 00:42:28 EDT." <199604100442.AAA12543@purcell.jlc.net> 

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"Jason T. Nelson" wrote in message ID
<199604100442.AAA12543@purcell.jlc.net>:
> I have a customer who is using his old 486SX (33mHz) with 8Mb of RAM to 
> route between ethernet (ep0) and a PPP link (tun0). The kernel itself 
> compiles and installs just fine, no warnings or whatever; when I try to 
> boot with it, it gets to where it says "npx0 on motherboard" or some such 
> thing, then panics immeadiately. Anybody have any idea?

> options		BOUNCE_BUFFERS		#include support for DMA bounce buffers

Not necessary for 8Mb machine...

> options		COMPAT_LINUX

Probably not something you want to try on a gateway :-)


Details of the panic would probably prove useful...

Gary



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