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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!uunet!usc!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!sal.wisc.edu!rat!cindy!cyber From: cyber@ecst.csuchico.edu (Erik Berls) Subject: Argh! 386BSD dies after a dozen or so commands! Message-ID: <1992Sep09.023506.16724@ecst.csuchico.edu> Summary: delayed death Keywords: 386bsd Memory Fault Sender: cyber@ecst.csuchico.edu Nntp-Posting-Host: cscihp.ecst.csuchico.edu Organization: California State University, Chico Date: Wed, 09 Sep 1992 02:35:06 GMT Lines: 28 Im having a little problem with 386BSD, after booting off of either the dist.fs or the fixit.fs it only allows me so many commands before it starts spitting back in my face. The easiest way to replicate the situation is to do a ls -al. That works for about 13 times, after that it Memory Faults. The computer science part of me says that something is not getting cleaned up. But it works fine on my roomates system (booting up, can do the ls -al 15-20 times without a problem, didnt try anymore after that.) My system: Adaptec 1542B SCSI Controller. Orchid Prodesigner II Sound Blaster Pro Compudyne Internal 2400 baud modem a no-name multi-io card (2s1p1g) a no-name monocrome card and the motherboard is a 386DX-33 (Intel) 8 megs of RAM as for brand name, it has a chip on the motherboard that says "CHIPS" but i seem to remember a manual that had the correct jumper configs that said "Star" on it, The motherboard can hold 16Megs, 8 on board, another 8 on an memory expansion board. (The abundance of motherboard info is to aid anyone in identifieing it.) AMI Bios. thanks, -=erik.