From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Aug 9 16:45:14 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id QAA21069 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 9 Aug 1997 16:45:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from citrine.cyberstation.net (hannibal@citrine.cyberstation.net [205.167.0.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id QAA21064 for ; Sat, 9 Aug 1997 16:45:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (hannibal@localhost) by citrine.cyberstation.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id SAA03433; Sat, 9 Aug 1997 18:45:07 -0500 (CDT) Date: Sat, 9 Aug 1997 18:45:07 -0500 (CDT) From: Dan Walters To: hcremean@vt.edu cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problem with newer installation disks? In-Reply-To: <19970809193724.42698@wakky.dyn.ml.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Both have 48MB, I believe. I guess that may explain it. :) As long as someone knows about it, it doesn't bother me any. Thanks, ====================================================================== Dan Walters hannibal@cyberstation.net ====================================================================== On Sat, 9 Aug 1997, Lee Cremeans wrote: > On Sat, Aug 09, 1997 at 06:21:27PM -0500, Dan Walters wrote: > > I was trying to install a snapshot off releng22.freebsd.org a couple weeks > > ago on one of our office machines, but got a "panic: double fault" message > > at the end of the boot process. I figured it was probably bad RAM or > > something and said forget it, but then a co-worker managed to sneak a copy > > of Linux in on me and it worked fine... > > Does your machine have 48MB of RAM in it, per chance? There's a bug in > the 2.2.2 boot floppy that makes it panic on that configuration. Try > going down to 32MB or up to 64MB to get around it. > > -- > Lee C. -- Manassas, VA, USA (WakkyMouse on DALnet #watertower) > A! JW223 YWD++^i WK+++r P&B++ SL+++^i GDF- B&M KK--i MD+++i P++ I++++ Di > $++ E5/10/70/3c/73ac Ee34/1/36 H2 PonPippi Ay77 M | hcremean (at) vt.edu > FreeBSD/Linux/Unix hacker...Win95 and M$ evil! (go see www.freebsd.org) > My home page: http://wakky.dyn.ml.org/~lee | finger me for geek code >