From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 9 22:45:23 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id WAA28536 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 9 Apr 1996 22:45:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from palmer.demon.co.uk (palmer.demon.co.uk [158.152.50.150]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id WAA28531 for ; Tue, 9 Apr 1996 22:45:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by palmer.demon.co.uk (sendmail/PALMER-1) with SMTP id GAA10462 ; Wed, 10 Apr 1996 06:44:45 +0100 (BST) To: "Jason T. Nelson" cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: "Gary Palmer" Subject: Re: kernel puking on boot In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 10 Apr 1996 00:42:28 EDT." <199604100442.AAA12543@purcell.jlc.net> Date: Wed, 10 Apr 1996 06:44:45 +0100 Message-ID: <10460.829115085@palmer.demon.co.uk> Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk "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