From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Dec 13 10:00:22 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA21552 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 13 Dec 1998 10:00:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from stoner.nsg.bc.ca (stoner.vn.opentext.com [209.171.211.110]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA21547 for ; Sun, 13 Dec 1998 10:00:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from acton@stoner.vn.opentext.com) Received: from stoner.vn.opentext.com (localhost.vn.opentext.com [127.0.0.1]) by stoner.nsg.bc.ca (8.8.7/8.7.2) with ESMTP id KAA24735 for ; Sun, 13 Dec 1998 10:00:18 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199812131800.KAA24735@stoner.nsg.bc.ca> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: fdisk, df, awk, core dump in 3.0 Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1998 10:00:17 -0800 From: Donald Acton Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I have an old 33Mhz 486SX (i.e. no floating point unit) machine that I decided to install FreeBSD 3.0 on. Unfortuantely, I am having trouble getting it to work and thought I'd check out this group to see if anyone else has encountered the problem and solved it before I delve into the situation too much further. I performed a minimal install of 3.0 on this machine and the setup sort of runs, but the programs fdisk, df, and awk (and perhaps others) all exit with a core dump. As a result, booting requires manual intervention and I have to skip the disk checks and some of the initilization scripts don't run. This problems occurs both with a custom kernel, built on another machine, to only use the 486 instruction set and with the generic kernel shipped as part of FreeBSD. I have taken the disk that the 3.0 system is installed on and connected it to a Pentium based machine and it boots and runs fine without any core dumps. I have also done a minmal install of 2.2.7 and it runs without problems. Any suggestions or tips? Donald Acton acton@opentext.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message