From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 3 21:51:19 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id VAA29097 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 3 Apr 1996 21:51:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id VAA29073 for ; Wed, 3 Apr 1996 21:50:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id PAA25402; Thu, 4 Apr 1996 15:40:53 +0930 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199604040610.PAA25402@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Intel Endeavor install problems (639K != 640K -> SIG 11) To: mikko@dynas.se (Mikko Tyolajarvi) Date: Thu, 4 Apr 1996 15:40:53 +0930 (CST) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <4judc4$cb1@spirit.dynas.se> from "Mikko Tyolajarvi" at Apr 3, 96 07:43:32 pm MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Mikko Tyolajarvi stands accused of saying: > > When booting, all report: > > =09BIOS basemem (639K) !=3D RTC basemem (640K) That's harmless. It means that the CMOS says you have 640K, but the BIOS has borrowed a little bit of it for itself. You can ignore it. > This flashes by very quickly, and I wouldn't even have noticed, if > the machine I was installing on had not failed to install. It gets > as far as ftp-ing the bin distribution (from a local machine with > a CD drive), then dies on a SIG 11. Hmm. Combined with your comment below I think this is one of the known gotchas with 2.1 and some funny motherboard caches. It's been worked around in more recent versions. > MB. I have second-hand information on a Dell 486 giving the same > warnin= g, but not even being able to boot the install floppy. This can sometimes be caused by having LBA mode turned on in the BIOS. > I will probably want to put FreeBSD on more of these machines, > how do I install on them without resorting to moving the disk > to another machine? It's tough because what you want is a boot disk with a newer kernel on it; you could ask Joerg (joerg@freebsd.org) if he has a copy of his -stable boot image somewhere that you can use. > =09=09/Mikko -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] Collector of old Unix hardware. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[