From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 1 23:18:40 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA21635 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 1 Sep 1998 23:18:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from orion.smlt.com (orion.smlt.com [195.153.190.198]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA21614 for ; Tue, 1 Sep 1998 23:18:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from quintin@smlt.com) Received: from localhost (quintin@localhost) by orion.smlt.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id HAA02396; Wed, 2 Sep 1998 07:34:53 +0100 Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1998 07:34:52 +0100 (BST) From: Quintin Oliver To: Steve Friedrich cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: sysintall keeps dumping core :( In-Reply-To: <199809011617.MAA01244@laker.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, Here's the information from dmesg: FreeBSD 2.2.7-RELEASE #0: Wed Jul 22 08:48:29 GMT 1998 root@builder.cdrom.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/GENERIC CPU: Cyrix 6x86MX (180.00-MHz 686-class CPU) Origin = "CyrixInstead" Id = 0x600 DIR=0x453 Stepping=0 Revision=4 real memory = 33554432 (32768K bytes) avail memory = 30400512 (29688K bytes) Probing for devices on PCI bus 0: chip0 rev 1 on pci0:0:0 chip1 rev 1 on pci0:7:0 chip2 rev 1 on pci0:7:1 chip3 rev 1 int d irq ?? on pci0:7:2 chip4 rev 1 on pci0:7:3 vga0 rev 22 int a irq ?? on pci0:9:0 ed1 rev 0 int a irq 11 on pci0:10:0 ed1: address 48:54:e8:2a:32:7e, type NE2000 (16 bit) Probing for devices on the ISA bus: sc0 at 0x60-0x6f irq 1 on motherboard sc0: VGA color <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x0> sio0 at 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 on isa sio0: type 16550A sio1 at 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3 on isa sio1: type 16550A lpt0 at 0x378-0x37f irq 7 on isa lpt0: Interrupt-driven port lp0: TCP/IP capable interface fdc0 at 0x3f0-0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on isa fdc0: FIFO enabled, 8 bytes threshold fd0: 1.44MB 3.5in wdc0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7 irq 14 on isa wdc0: unit 0 (wd0): wd0: 4134MB (8467200 sectors), 8960 cyls, 15 heads, 63 S/T, 512 B/S npx0 flags 0x1 on motherboard npx0: INT 16 interface I can change the memory in the machine, but I'm not sure why?? could memory do this to FreeBSD? before I ran FreeBSD on this machine I was running RedHat Linux 5.1 I was able to run X, etc... However when I booted Quake on the machine it would fall over (dump core) - at first I thought it was lack of memory, I then ran Quake on a p100 with 16meg of RAM nearly half the specs of the previous machine, it run's Quake fine. Futher more, many of times Linux would kick the error 'ide0: reset' it only ever happened on this machine - there must be something wrong with it?? Cheers, Quintin. On Tue, 1 Sep 1998, Steve Friedrich wrote: > On Tue, 1 Sep 1998 17:17:00 +0100 (BST), Quintin Oliver wrote: > > >I can't remember exactly how it looked, perhaps there's someway I can > >put the system boot to a file? > > If the system came up, you could use "dmesg>somefilename" to capture > most of what went to the screen during boot process. > > Have you tried booting to single user mode with -s at the boot prompt?? > If that got you to a prompt, you could perform the dmesg command > above... > > Can you change the memory in this box ?? > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message