From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 20 15:08:54 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id PAA12756 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 20 Feb 1996 15:08:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from mailgate.isltd.insignia.com (mailgate.isltd.insignia.com [193.112.16.21]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA12744 for ; Tue, 20 Feb 1996 15:08:51 -0800 (PST) X-Address: Insignia Solutions plc., High Wycombe, Bucks, HP11 1JU, UK X-Telephone: +44 1494 459426 X-Fax: +44 1494 459720 Received: from cornflakes.isltd.insignia.com by mailgate.isltd.insignia.com (5.65c8/UK-2.1.ISL) with SMTP id AA13918; Tue, 20 Feb 1996 23:08:47 GMT Message-Id: <299.9602202308@cornflakes.isltd.insignia.com> Received: from ppp15.isltd.insignia.com by cornflakes.isltd.insignia.com (4.1/UK-2.1.ISL) Date: Tue, 20 Feb 96 23:07:41 -0800 From: Kevin Quinlan Organization: Insignia Solutions plc X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.22 (Windows; I; 16bit) Mime-Version: 1.0 To: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Kernel panic installing FreeBSD 2.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi, I have asked this a couple of times of info@freebsdorg, but I guess that is the wrong address, according to your Web page, although it seemed correct from reading the CDROM instructions. I am trying to install FreeBSD 2.1 on a Pentium 100 (32Mb) with a Buslogic 946C SCSI controller and a 1.2Gb Seagate Hawk boot disk. I have had some difficulty partitioning the disk, but I have used the Fdisk utility supplied on the CDROM and it seems to be correct now. I do the whole install using the Novice method, and it all goes well until about 50% through writing the / partition when the kernel (booted from the CDROM floppy image) crashes with a page fault. I have trawled the web pages and the newsgroup archives and only found one similar instance - without an answer. This suggests that I may be doing something so obviously wrong that no-one thinks it is worth answering, or it may be a rare occurance. Regardless, I have tried all the variations that I can at present (I only have the CDROM option as my target machine is not installed on the net at present) including making a small DOS partition on the disk and limiting the freebsd partition to under 1Gb, but to no avail, the install continues to fail. Do you have any ideas what I am doing wrong, or what I may have configured incorrectly to cause these problems? Regards Kevin Quinlan