From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 24 14:52:16 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id OAA16860 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 14:52:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from relay-11.mail.demon.net (relay-11.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.137]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA16828 for ; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 14:52:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from ccompute.demon.co.uk ([194.222.50.108]) by relay-10.mail.demon.net id aa1013998; 24 Nov 96 22:32 GMT Message-ID: <8m6x6AAhmMmyEwE2@ccompute.demon.co.uk> Date: Sun, 24 Nov 1996 22:18:09 +0000 To: questions@freebsd.org From: "Arthur J. Constantine" Subject: Novice, 2.1.5, 2940Ultra and SNAP disk, help MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Turnpike Version 1.12 Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi I am trying to install freebsd 2.1.5 on my computer with the SNAP disk 2.2-961014 (due to 2940 Ultra disk controller). At Boot I get the following inconsistancy : Boot@0x10000: 640/65472k I have 128K of memory. After booting the Kernel I go into the visual editor and remove all the unwanted drivers leaving (fdc0,lpt0,sio0,sio1,sc0,all PCI, and piix0 an unknown device, which if removed causes a reboot). I then go into the OPTIONS editor and change the Release name from 2.2- 961014-SNAP to 2.1.5-RELEASE and set the Media type to CDROM. then chose the Novice setup and set the geometry to get the C=> Flags, choose BootMgr,and then Auto for the Disk label editor, then minimal dist. and having answered Yes carry on, it then does : newfs -b 8192 -f 1024 /mnt/dev/rsd0 .. and then: extracting bin into / directory ... this get through to: "Saving any boot -c changes to new Kernel ..." at which point I get plastered across the screen "Fatal signal 11 caught! I'm dead .." I have the following Hardware set-up : TMC Motherboard : Pentium 166, 128K EDO RAM, 512K cache. (tried 64K, 256K Cache) AHA - 2940 AU PCI SCSI Controller Soundblaster AWE PnP,(ISA) (Tried removing this). Trident 9000 VGA card.(ISA) Harddrive Micropolis 1991AV 9.1 GB Dos installed on a 1GByte partition. Q. Can you tell me what I am doing wrong? Q. What is fatal signal 11, is this IRQ 11, or is it to do with S/W? Q. What should I do to overcome this problem? Many thanks in advance for any assistance. E-mail: arthur.constantine@ccompute.demon.co.uk -- Arthur J. Constantine