From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 26 13:22:15 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA02070 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 26 Jan 1999 13:22:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from chopin.seattleu.edu (chopin.seattleu.edu [206.81.198.70]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA02063 for ; Tue, 26 Jan 1999 13:22:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from hodeleri@seattleu.edu) Received: from seattleu.edu ([172.17.41.90]) by chopin.seattleu.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA26420; Tue, 26 Jan 1999 13:21:58 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <36AE31F6.C90418D8@seattleu.edu> Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1999 13:21:58 -0800 From: Eric Hodel X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.0-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Nicholas Vinen CC: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problem booting 3.0 kernel References: <199901261043.VAA23787@shell1.syd.fl.net.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Nicholas Vinen wrote: > > UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU> Hi, I got a copy of the FreeBSD 3.0 CDROM to try it out. A couple of > weeks ago, I managed to boot it into install but was confused by the disk > slice editor so didn't install it. Ok. > Since then I have changed my setup > slightly and now I get a kernel page fault after the "Searching for ISA > devices...". Ok > I changed my network card to a 3c509 but I don't think this > is the problem. Try changing it back > I also changed my IDE setup with my ATAPI CDROM devices on > the motherboard IDE controller and my hard disk on an external IDE > controller. > FreeBSD 3.0 detects this PCI IDE controller fine but it still > seems to crash. I was wondering if this is a known problem or if there's a > newer kernel I can download and put onto a floppy so that I can continue > the installation? Not as a release, try pulling everything but the necessary hardware out, then putting them back in piece by piece until you find a solution. -- Eric Hodel hodeleri@seattleu.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message