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Date:      Mon, 21 Feb 2000 13:03:29 +0200
From:      Lyubomir Russev <Lyubomir.Russev@gocis.bg>
To:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Floppy boot problem
Message-ID:  <38B11B81.DCAC8F3A@gocis.bg>

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Dear sirs,
I made 2 perfect installations of FreeBSD 3.4 on PCs with
 - Pentium II-350 / 256 MB RAM, 18GB IDE HDD, 32xCD-ROM Teac 
 - Pentium 150 / 64 MB RAM, 4 GB IDE HDD, 24xCD-ROM Teac 
   (after unsuccessful attempts on 486DX4/100, see below)

Using same 2 floppies I have repeating failure on my home
PC with AMD 486DX4/100, 64 MB RAM, 1.7 GB IDE HDD, 32xCD-ROM Teac.
Here is sample output from console:

First diskette goes OK:
_____________________________________
/boot config: -P
Keyboard: yes

BTX Loader 1.00 BTX version is 1.01
Console: internal video/keyboard
BIOS drive A: is disk0
BIOS drive C: is disk1

FreeBSD/i386 bootstrap loader Revision 0.7 640/64512 kB
(jkh@highwing.cdrom.com, Tue Dec 28 21:11:19 GMT 1999)
/kernel text=0x19e6fb data=0x1cf10+0x2006c syms=[0x4+0x25ef0+0x4+0x2619c]

Please insert MFS root floppy and press enter

____________________________
Here after some rotations of [/] system crashes with
following output:
____________________________

Hit [Enter] to boot immediately or any other key for command prompt

Booting [kernel]

Fatal trap 12 page fault while in kernel mode

____________________________
there are also addresses and maybe CPU registers, but system
reboots within 15 seconds, so I was unable to write them

On the same machine successfully runs Windows 98, Windows NT 4 Server SP6,
Windows 2000 beta3, Red Hat Linux 6.0, FreeBSD 3.3.
These Operating Systems are installed on different HDDs
FreeBSD 3.4 installation attempt is on empty HDD.

Is there any code on MFS root floppy which requires Pentium so my 486 crashes?
Or there is some other problem?

Thank you in advance!
Lyubomir Russev.
FreeBSD enthusiast


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