From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 3 10:31:01 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id KAA13323 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 3 Apr 1996 10:31:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu (riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.164]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA13311 for ; Wed, 3 Apr 1996 10:30:58 -0800 (PST) Received: (from dwhite@localhost) by riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id KAA01523; Wed, 3 Apr 1996 10:27:40 -0800 Date: Wed, 3 Apr 1996 10:27:40 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: David Kirchner cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au Subject: Re: Asus PVI-486SP3 motherboard problems In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 3 Apr 1996, David Kirchner wrote: > :> I'm having problems getting FreeBSD installed on my computer. > :> While installing the files it either gpf's or kernel panics and then > :> sometimes it locks the keyboard. > > Sorry about that before, I forgot that. Here it is (formatting > will probably be wrong) : > > last ptr: 0x8:0xf01dc20e > code segment: > base 0x0, limit 0xfffff, type 0x1b > DPL=0, pres 1, def32 1, gran 1 > processor eflags > interrupt enabled, resume, IOPL = 0 > current process = idle > int mask = bio Did it spit a line like panic: fatal trap 12 while in kernel mode or something? > > I tried installing it again following Michael Smith's > recommendation to disable the Write Back cache, and when I did I got the > exact same panic (same last ptr and everything) but instead of panicing > while it was idle it said 1 (sysinstall) Did you turn off block mode as well for the disks? This seems to be the major problem. > :Nice machine...that sb32 pnp will probably give you problems if you can't > :disable pnp... > > Yeah, if it's even possible. I'll check the manuals again but this > may requre a call to Creative. There have been people asking about the sb16 pnp's, I think someone whipped up some code to get them working, but it's most likely in -current if it is even committed. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major