From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 20 16:35:43 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id QAA19101 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 20 Feb 1996 16:35:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from baygull.rtd.com (baygull.rtd.com [198.102.68.5]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA19096 for ; Tue, 20 Feb 1996 16:35:41 -0800 (PST) Received: (from news@localhost) by baygull.rtd.com (8.6.9/8.6.9.1) id RAA05265; Tue, 20 Feb 1996 17:35:25 -0700 To: questions@freebsd.org Path: freefall.freebsd.org!owner-freebsd-questions From: Kevin.Quinlan@isltd.insignia.com (Kevin Quinlan) Newsgroups: rtd.freebsd.questions Subject: Kernel panic installing FreeBSD 2.1 Date: Tue, 20 Feb 96 23:07:41 -0800 Organization: Insignia Solutions plc Lines: 38 Message-ID: <299.9602202308@cornflakes.isltd.insignia.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: seagull.rtd.com 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