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From: sdslavin@pegasus2.astro.indiana.edu (Shawn Slavin)
Subject: Re: FreeBSD trap type 12
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Date: Thu, 20 Jan 1994 21:35:47 GMT
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Hi.  I experienced this with my i486/50 DX2.  I was compiling the GENERICAH
kernal and getting the same panic trap.  What I found strange was that I could
compile it on my friend's AMD 386/40, and it would work fine.

The answer seemed to be going to the SYSCONS config.  I tried it once, also
using the -m486 -O2 options (for whatever that's worth), and it worked first
time.  In fact, I was having a problem with my keryboard at boot time
(something reported by Gateway 486 users), and the SYSCONS config seemed to
solve that, too.

I strongly recommend trying this config, before you do anything else.