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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!Germany.EU.net!EU.net!sun4nl!news.nic.surfnet.nl!tuegate.tue.nl!news.iaehv.nl!news.iaehv.nl!not-for-mail From: gigawalt@iaehv.IAEhv.nl (Walter Belgers) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: upgrade 1.1.5->2.0 AARGH #*&@^$#@*$ Date: 13 Feb 1995 20:32:11 +0100 Organization: The TimeWasters Lines: 36 Message-ID: <3hoc3r$fue@iaehv.IAEhv.nl> NNTP-Posting-Host: iaehv.iaehv.nl Summary: I'm about to throw my system out the window Keywords: ASUS SP3G, NCR, FreeBSD 2.0, PROBLEMS Hi, I've been busy trying to upgrade my system and installing FreeBSD 2.0 but after 10 days of work, no result. Here's the score: I ran FreeBSD 1.1.5 on my 386DX40. No problems, I was very happy with it. I decided to upgrade to 486 and bought an ASUS SP3G board and SONY CDROM drive (SCSI). Then the problems began.. To make a long story short: the CDROM drive wouldn't work. I finally installed FreeBSD 2.0 using an Adaptec 1542CF and a Toshiba CDROM player, thereby disabling the on-board NCR SCSI controller. I have also disabled most BIOS speed-up settings, set the DRAM cache to Write-back etc etc but I constantly get - bus error (core dump) - memory fault (core dump or fatal + reboot) (I can't even run fsck any more..) - ld.so call to bind from unknown location (when installing from CDROM) - checksum errors (when installing from CDROM, this happens randomly) - segv errors - lock_clear_recursive: wrong thread In other words: I now have no working operating system and wish I'd never bought the #@*&$^ motherboard and sticked with 1.1.5. This is my last resort to find out if there are people who have succesfully installed FreeBSD 2.0 on an ASUS SP3G (I have a Cyrix DX66 btw). _Any_ help appreciated! Computers... -sigh- Walter. -- Walter Belgers ------. Jo man! Tok tok jo! gigawalt@iaehv.nl \ gigawalt@giga.iaehv.nl `-> more info: http://www.iaehv.nl/users/gigawalt/