Date: Thu, 18 Jul 1996 22:23:28 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu> To: Jim Dennis <jim@starshine.org> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: text = 0xe3000 - -- and locks: Why? Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.960718221726.265I-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <199607190130.SAA00179@starshine>
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Ugh. This is ugly. Put on the long rubber gloves and dig in... On Thu, 18 Jul 1996, Jim Dennis wrote: > Here's the situation: > > I have a 16Mb 386DX33 with a ULSI 387 Match-coprocessor, a > QuickPath Portfolio 550E I/O card (4serial, 2 IDE channels, > 4 floppy, 2 parallel, and a game port) one 220M WD IDE hard > drive, on 2.5G DEC SCSI hard drive, an Adaptec 1542C > SCSI host adapter, and an old Texel double speed CD-ROM > (and a 1Mb Tseng ET4000 SVGA card). OK so far. > First problem: > > Hangs after ze0 or zp0. Disable 'em from UserConfig (-c on the Boot: prompt). > > Solution: boot with the -c option, ls the configured > devices, disable npx0 > (also used visual and disabled all of the > other unecessary drivers). Your math copro must not be 387 compatible then. While you're at it, disable any other device you don't have. > So I could get booted and into the installation script. > Now I decided to install FreeBSD on the other 170Mb of the > IDE drive. It seemed like it would be easiest (I just > blew away the extended DOS partition that had been there). > > Second problem: > > Crashes, Panics, Hangs, and Reboots after fdisk/disklabel. Are you pressing <W>rite? Don't; it's seriously broken. > Borrowed my old 2.1.0 CD set from my former employer > (McAfee Associates) -- I don't remember if I ever > turned it a receipt on it but they aren't concerned -- > their systems are stable and they know where to find > me if they need the CD's back. > > Still had to use the "disable npx0" configuration option. > Still can't install on the IDE drive. > Got the whole thing installed on the SCSI drive with > no error. Screwy. Your IDE controller must be interfereing somehow, maybe it has the same problem as the Promise's do? > I press F5 (other drive), > and F2 (second primary partition on the SCSI drive) > and type -c or "kernel.GENERIC -c" to attempt to > load the kernel from the hard drive (so I can tell > it to ignore my "not quite compatible" math co). > (I've also tried removing the math co physically > from the system). > > What I get now is a message like: > > sd(1,a)/kernel @ 0x100000 > text = 0xe3000 - > > (the "twirl-a-gig" spins for a second and tops right there). Sounds like a corrupted install. I'd try deleting the FreeBSD partition and start all over, and this time no <W>rites. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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