From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Aug 31 09:17:05 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C993E16A4BF for ; Sun, 31 Aug 2003 09:17:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp07.wxs.nl (smtp07.wxs.nl [195.121.6.39]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 060E343FA3 for ; Sun, 31 Aug 2003 09:17:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from akruijff@www.kruijff.org) Received: from kruij557.speed.planet.nl (ipd50a97ba.speed.planet.nl [213.10.151.186]) by smtp07.wxs.nl (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.14 (built Mar 18 2003)) with ESMTP id <0HKH00BL8RWFLL@smtp07.wxs.nl> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 31 Aug 2003 18:17:04 +0200 (MEST) Received: from Intranet.lan (akruijff@localhost [127.0.0.1]) h7VGH2RO093207;akruijff@Intranet.lan) Received: (from akruijff@localhost) by Intranet.lan (8.12.8p1/8.12.8/Submit) id h7VGH0Ad093206; Sun, 31 Aug 2003 18:17:01 +0200 (CEST) Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2003 18:17:00 +0200 From: Alex de Kruijff In-reply-to: <200308262217.RAA05834@buhlpress.com> To: Don Barkley Message-id: <20030831161700.GH94087@dds.nl> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i References: <200308262217.RAA05834@buhlpress.com> cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 4.8 install on Gateway 920 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2003 16:17:05 -0000 On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 05:17:28PM -0500, Don Barkley wrote: > i am having a problem installing 4.8 on a new Gateway 920. > the system boots and asks for mfsroot.flp. > > almost immediately after, i get the following: > > Fatal trap 10: trace trap while in vm86 mode > .. instruction, stack and frame pointers follow ... > trap number = 10 > panic: trace trap > Uptime: 1s > > anyone seen this before? any suggestions? thanks. > It could be that one of your floppies is bad or that some bad code has entered the floppie images. (I had the later one time.) The solution for the first option is to get new floppies, the solution for the later is to use floppies of earlies version, install that and then upgrade. -- Alex Articles based on solutions that I use: http://www.kruijff.org/alex/index.php?dir=docs/FreeBSD/