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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: 2.1.0-RELEASE sysinstall panics kernel.
Date: 23 Dec 1995 14:11:44 GMT
Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden
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jdm@atheria.europa.com (Jesse) writes:
> panic: privileged instruction fault
>
> syncing disks...
>
> Fatal trap 1: privileged instruction fault while in kernel mode
Privileged instruction fault. Well, this came up in the mailing lists
some day. Smells like a broken CPU. :-(
> I know that my disks are okay because I used it to (nearly) successfully
> install the bin distribution onto 66Mhz Cx486S2 with the same hard drive
^^^^^^^
> and amount of memory and cache from the same floppies. [Only "nearly"
> successfully because it wouldn't recognize the Intel EtherExpress Pro
> network card...]
..and yes, the few other people that ever have seen this were also
owners of a Cyrix CPU.
--
cheers, J"org
joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)