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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!torn!news.unb.ca!familynews.cycor.ca!ch-as18.peinet.pe.ca!pmacfarl 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 Organization: PEINet Lines: 41 Message-ID: <pmacfarl.13.00B23681@peinet.pe.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: ch-as18.peinet.pe.ca X-Newsreader: Trumpet for Windows [Version 1.0 Rev B final beta #4] 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?