From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 19 14:15:17 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id OAA05428 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 19 Nov 1997 14:15:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from chaotic.ultra.net.au (chaotic.oz.org [203.20.237.203]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id OAA05405 for ; Wed, 19 Nov 1997 14:15:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from simon@chaotic.ultra.net.au) Received: (from simon@localhost) by chaotic.ultra.net.au (8.8.5/8.8.5) id IAA02182 for questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Thu, 20 Nov 1997 08:15:03 +1000 (EST) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.2-beta-111097 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit MIME-Version: 1.0 IRC: X-IRC: Chaos @ mpx.sydney.oz.org Port 6666 Date: Thu, 20 Nov 1997 08:15:02 +1000 (EST) Organization: Chaotic Software From: Simon Coggins To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: 2.2.5 Boot Floppy and Kernel Panic Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Heya, I'm having a problem trying to upgrade to 2.2.5-R what happends is it starts to boot from the floppy then it gets to uncompressing the kernel. Once that is finished it imediatly kernel Panics. I've tried reducing my ram to 32 meg of ram and using a different floppy disk incase it had some bad sectors or something it didn't find when i DD'ed My machine is a Cyrix P166 MMX with a Tekram motherboard (with inbuilt Adaptec SCSI AIC 7880) ad it has 64 meg of ram. Anyone got any ideas? Regards Simon