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From: pmacfarl@peinet.pe.ca
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: New Install of 2.1 needs diagnosis please
Date: Fri, 24 Nov 1995 13:29:03 LOCAL
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Peoples:
I am having problems with my first attempt to load FreeBSD. This is a fairly
standard 386DX-40 system that I threw together. There is not much to go wrong
here (I think!). It has:
Juko ET 386DX W/B Motherboard
Maxtor 120 Meg hard drive
Trident VGA (running in mono mode)
A standard ISA multi I/O card with IDE, floppy, etc.
3 1/2" disk
4 Megs of 80 ns SIMMs
Installed were also an 8 bit Sound Blaster compatible and an NE1000 card, but
these were removed for the process of elimination. I had a system hang with
version 2.0.5. With 2.1.0 I am glad to say that I get more information. Here
is the end panic dump:
Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode
Fault virtual address = 0x0
fault code= supervisor read, page not present
instruction pointer = 0x8:0xf018c82d
code segment = base 0x0, limit 0xfffff, type ox1b
= DPL 0, pres 1, def32 1, gran 1
processor eflags = interrupt enabled, resume, IOPL=0
current process = 1 (swapper)
interrupt mask = net tty bio
panic: page fault
Can anyone shed some light on this situation? Has some memory gone bad?
This PC dual-boots using IBM's Boot Manager and works fine on the DOS
configuration. Your assistance would surely be appreciated. FreeBSD seems
to be a worthwhile project, and I am looking forward to learning some serious
UNIX on it.
Peter MacFarlane
pmacfarl@peinet.pe.ca
BTW: How much disk space IS required for the basic install?