From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 29 09:38:23 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id JAA04710 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 29 Mar 1996 09:38:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from igw.fmc.com (igw.fmc.com [192.169.1.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA04693 for ; Fri, 29 Mar 1996 09:38:19 -0800 (PST) Received: by igw.fmc.com id AA10589 (InterLock SMTP Gateway 3.0 for questions@FreeBSD.org); Fri, 29 Mar 1996 11:38:05 -0600 Received: by igw.fmc.com (Protected-side Proxy Mail Agent-2); Fri, 29 Mar 1996 11:38:05 -0600 Received: by igw.fmc.com (Protected-side Proxy Mail Agent-1); Fri, 29 Mar 1996 11:38:05 -0600 Date: Fri, 29 Mar 96 11:37:57 cdt From: "DAVID SLOUGH" Message-Id: <9602298281.AA828128096@NSDGATE3.NSD.FMC.COM> To: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Install HELP! - kernel panic during install Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Cheers, I am a newbie to UNIX on PC's. I got the WC 2.1 distribution to do some experiments with firewall configs. As yet though I can't even get the OS running. Linux has run well on this box, but I would prefer FreeBSD for running firewall tools. I have searched just about everything in doco/lists on the FreeBSD site I could for an answer to this one and have had no luck. During sysinstall while copying files in the /bin directory the boot image will call a panic for an "unknown/reserved trap", sync disks with 1 or 84, and reboot. This has occurred on every install try. Machine config: 486 DX2/66 PVI-486SP3 Mother Board - 3 PCI/1 VLB/3 ISA On-board IDE controller - 2 serial UART/1 parallel TEAC FD-235 1.44 Floppy Seagate 420 MB ST349 GEO:899/15/62 Hercules Dynamite VL Pro V8.00 3Com Etherlink III/TP Adaptec 1522A SCSI controller NEC 6xe CD ROM My first try was to do an install from a DOS partition. I copied the bindist files to the HD from a parallel attached CD-ROM and ran sysinstall from the floppy image. The panic and subsequent reboot occurred. Next I added the SCSI controller and CD-ROM and tried installing from CD. Same result. Next I changed the disk geometry to reflect the difference between the DOS partition and the BSD partition and installed from both the DOS partition and the CD. Same result. Finally, I made the whole disk BSD and installed from CD. Same result. What am I missing here? Should disk geometry be different? Is there a known flaky component in my config? Thanks in advance for the responses =;->. ******************************************************** Dave Slough - CITIS Network Engineer -------------------------------------------------------- David_Slough@NSDGATE3.nsd.fmc.com - Minneapolis, MN, USA ********************************************************