From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 20 18: 9:13 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F0C3714DFE for ; Tue, 20 Apr 1999 18:09:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id KAA27298; Wed, 21 Apr 1999 10:36:32 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id KAA53594; Wed, 21 Apr 1999 10:36:30 +0930 (CST) Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1999 10:36:30 +091800 From: Greg Lehey To: "Pavel V. Antipov" Cc: Jilani Khaldi , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Kernel Panic! Me too. Message-ID: <19990421103630.C53374@freebie.lemis.com> References: <371C8E2D.DE389C47@agata.clio.it> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: ; from Pavel V. Antipov on Tue, Apr 20, 1999 at 07:13:34PM +0400 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tuesday, 20 April 1999 at 19:13:34 +0400, Pavel V. Antipov wrote: > On Tue, 20 Apr 1999, Jilani Khaldi wrote: > >> Hi all, >> I have a pentium Celetron 333 MHZ, with 128 MB of RAM, and 6 GB of HD. I >> want to substitute NT. I have installed on it FreeBSD 3.1 (release >> version) and built the kernel choosing I586 as CPU. Now, when FreeBSD >> starts, I see: kernel panic, press any key to reboot. If you look more carefully, you'll see more. It's trying to tell you something. >> And every time the same story. It can't go on. Do I have to >> reinstall it again? Or there is something to save from the last >> installation? And if I have to reinstall again, I don't want to >> have the generic kernel, but another optimized for my machine. >> >> Thanks. > > 1. boot with generic kernel or reinstall FreeBSD There's no good reason to reinstall. Boot with the GENERIC kernel and rebuild the kernel with the correct configuration. > 2. adjust your kernel but DON'T TOUCH the "cpu" entries In this case, it'll be fine, as long as you keep the I686 entry. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message