From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 1 09:01:03 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA00511 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 1 Sep 1998 09:01:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from orion.smlt.com (orion.smlt.com [195.153.190.198]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA00504 for ; Tue, 1 Sep 1998 09:01:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from quintin@smlt.com) Received: from localhost (quintin@localhost) by orion.smlt.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id RAA01767; Tue, 1 Sep 1998 17:17:01 +0100 Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1998 17:17:00 +0100 (BST) From: Quintin Oliver To: Steve Friedrich cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: sysintall keeps dumping core :( In-Reply-To: <199809011500.LAA30606@laker.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, Thanks - I've configured that, it still happening tho, heres the error message: Sep 1 18:01:10 centauri /kernel: pid 167 (sysinstall), uid 0: exited on signal 10 (core dumped) Bus error (core dumped) I've checked, and there is *nothing* conflicting in the kernel startup, I'm not sure why it's happening, something I did notice during boot - many times when it's detected a device it said something like: device port: 0x300 irq ?? I can't remember exactly how it looked, perhaps there's someway I can put the system boot to a file? Thank you very much for your help, Quintin. On Tue, 1 Sep 1998, Steve Friedrich wrote: > On Tue, 1 Sep 1998 14:42:51 +0100 (BST), Quintin Oliver wrote: > > >Without touching the machine, I tried to run /stand/sysinstall, it runs, > >then crashes when I select 'Post-Install'-'Packages' as soon as it gets > >the INDEX from ftp.freebsd.org, it crashes out: sysintall: exited in > >signal 10 dumped core (bus error). > > To me, it sounds like you have a hardware resource conflict, like an > interrupt being shared. > When you boot, enter "-c" at the boot: prompt and go into the > configuration visual editor by entering "v" > The screen will be divided into top and bottom sections. The two > sections contain all the device drivers that are available in the > current kernel (GENERIC, if you haven't built your own yet). In the top > section, "uncollapse" each section and look at each device, and check > for the word "Conf" in inverse video, indicating an interrupt or i/o > address conflict. If you find any, you'll have to find an unused > interrupt to assign to one of the devices or an unused i/o address > range. > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message