From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 10 20:13:29 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from phnxpop4.phnx.uswest.net (phnxpop4.phnx.uswest.net [206.80.192.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9286D37B503 for ; Tue, 10 Oct 2000 20:13:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 92729 invoked by alias); 11 Oct 2000 03:11:22 -0000 Delivered-To: fixup-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG@fixme Received: (qmail 89436 invoked by uid 0); 11 Oct 2000 03:10:26 -0000 Received: from phnx-6400-gw2poolg114.phnx.uswest.net (HELO system) (63.226.50.114) by phnxpop4.phnx.uswest.net with SMTP; 11 Oct 2000 03:10:26 -0000 Message-ID: <0ae401c03330$8b2b4750$0200000a@system> From: "Kerry Davis" To: "Rick Hamell" Cc: Subject: Re: puzzlement Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 20:08:34 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.2106.4 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.2106.4 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To: Kerry Davis Cc: 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 > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message