From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 12 19:07:58 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF36416A4CE for ; Mon, 12 Jul 2004 19:07:58 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (ns0.infracaninophile.co.uk [81.2.69.218]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E27A743D41 for ; Mon, 12 Jul 2004 19:07:57 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: from happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk (localhost [IPv6:::1]) i6CJ7q7G065011 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Mon, 12 Jul 2004 20:07:52 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from matthew@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: (from matthew@localhost)id i6CJ7q77065010; Mon, 12 Jul 2004 20:07:52 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from matthew) Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 20:07:52 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman To: Kenneth Christie Message-ID: <20040712190752.GB64570@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> Mail-Followup-To: Matthew Seaman , Kenneth Christie , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <000901c4683e$e53cbac0$13f889d9@GLAZHITBAS> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="FkmkrVfFsRoUs1wW" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <000901c4683e$e53cbac0$13f889d9@GLAZHITBAS> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i X-Greylist: Message not sent from an IPv4 address, not delayed by milter-greylist-1.5.3 (smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk [0.0.0.0]); Mon, 12 Jul 2004 20:07:52 +0100 (BST) X-Virus-Scanned: clamd / ClamAV version devel-20040705, clamav-milter version 0.74a on smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=2.63 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installation 4-10 Stable - Fatal Trap 12 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 19:07:58 -0000 --FkmkrVfFsRoUs1wW Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Jul 12, 2004 at 07:34:19PM +0100, Kenneth Christie wrote: > I cannot get past the attached message when trying to install Free BSD 4.= 10 stable. Can you give me an indication as to what the problem might be ? = (I am totally new to Unix, and was wanting to install Free BSD to learn abo= ut it. I have searched the FAQs but without coming across a similar message= , although one did suggest disabling ACPI during the installation. How woul= d I do this if this is what I need to do ?). Please enhance your karma by hitting the return key every 72 or so characters. Sorry -- you attachment was eaten by the attachment eater. Only certain MIME types are permitted on the FreeBSD mailing lists. However I can say confidently that trying to disable ACPI on a 4.10 install won't work. There isn't any ACPI support turned on by default in 4.x: all of the advice about turning off ACPI applies to 5.x, and in that case, the installation procedure is a bit different and gives you that choice fairly early on. Fatal Trap 12 means "non-existent system call invoked". Seeing it while attempting to boot a kernel either means that the kernel is broken, or that you have hardware problems. In the first instance, you could have a corrupt kernel image on your installation media. If you're trying to install from floppy disks, throw away any disks you've been using and try again with some nice new fresh from the manufacturer floppies. Otherwise, if you're using one of the .iso images, try checking the md5 checksum to make sure everything came down OK. Knowing as little about Windows as I do, I have no reliable idea about how to do that. However a little googling pulled up this page, which looks like just the ticket: http://www.fastsum.com/ If on the other hand, it's a hardware problem then you'll have to work out if your system is faulty. That's something you tend to learn how to deal with through experience and not something easily described in a simple e-mail like this. Of course, it could be that you have hardware which simply isn't supported under FreeBSD 4.10 -- most of the time FreeBSD will simply igore kit it doesn't know how to drive, but if it's something important like the disk controller all bets are off. Try comparing your system against the lists of devices in the 4.10 Hardware Notes: http://www.freebsd.org/releases/4.10R/hardware-i386.html Also search the FreeBSD mailing lists for other mentions of your particular brand of system (or of the motherboard in your system) -- some makes have specific settings that need to be in the BIOS before they will work with FreeBSD. A good interface for searching FreeBSD mailing lists is available at: http://freebsd.rambler.ru/ Cheers, Matthew --=20 Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Marlow Tel: +44 1628 476614 Bucks., SL7 1TH UK --FkmkrVfFsRoUs1wW Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFA8uGIiD657aJF7eIRAh1ZAKCxEfeOieW95LQk25vyOTxTJddg5ACgtJkB dr4MJnz5a9pE2O8ortKmF1g= =tWpV -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --FkmkrVfFsRoUs1wW--