Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 20:08:34 -0700 From: "Kerry Davis" <kedavis@uswest.net> To: "Rick Hamell" <hamellr@heorot.1nova.com> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: puzzlement Message-ID: <0ae401c03330$8b2b4750$0200000a@system>
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Okay, after deleting the DOS partition - which the BSD install docs say I
DON'T NEED TO DO (in fact they RECOMMEND having a small DOS partition to
boot from in case of "emergencies"), I finally got what seems to be a
semi-working install. except...
the first time I start it each time, after logging in as root, I get an
error/stop.
this last time, this is what I got (as I wrote it down from screen):
Kernel trap 9 with interrupts disabled
Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode
Fault virtual address: 0x44
Fault code: supervisor read, page not present
Instruction pointer: 0x8:0xc4
Stack pointer: 0x10:0xc60ddba0
Frame pointer: 0x10:0xc60ddbac
Code segment: base 0x0, limit 0xfffff, type 0x1b
dpl 0, pres 1, def 321, gran 1
Processor eflags = interrupt enabled, resume, iopl=0
current process = 163 (login)
interrupt mask = cam
trap number = 12
panic = page fault
BUT THEN, after it goes through a wait thing and automatically reboots, I
can then login as root and everything is fine.
Any ideas?
-----Original Message-----
From: Rick Hamell <hamellr@heorot.1nova.com>
To: Kerry Davis <kedavis@uswest.net>
Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Date: Tuesday, October 10, 2000 3:37 PM
Subject: Re: puzzlement
>
>> I started out by installing DOS in a small (200 meg) partition on the
first
>> drive (IBM 2 gig SCSI, on a Qlogic 1080 card), along with IDE CD-ROM
>> drivers, which is how I read the readme.txt and install.txt files.
>
> For a first time install, I would recommend this... I personally
>don't do it anymore, but that's me... :)
>
>> Then I created the 2 boot/install floppies from makeflp.bat (which is an
>> issue to me right there: why can't there just be a DOS install program
on
>> the CD? seems like that couldn't be any more difficult than putting
>> together the 2-floppy "bootstrap" thing), and booted from those
>
> Actually, the CDROM is bootable. No need for such a dos program on
>the CDROM. Though there probally is.
>
>> Everything seemed to go more or less okay, as it looked. But after the
>> installation is completed, my system won't reboot. Even if I change the
>> boot sequence to C: Only, it goes through the POST stuff, then goes to
the
>> floppy drive and stays there.
>
> Um... if you've got floppies in the disk drive, and the CDROM in
>the CDROM drive, you should be booting off of A: or d: first.. not your
>c:\... Now, if you've formated and put a system on the c:\ then that
>should work. But you've created the floppies, so boot off of
>them. BTW.. 90% of the boot problems with floppies are bad disks.
>
>
> Rick
>
>
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