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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Installation problem: Page fault by boot floppy
Date: 17 Jan 1996 01:50:55 GMT
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zhenli@wam.umd.edu (Zhen Li) writes:

> I have a lot of trouble in installing basic freebsd system.
> I do not have CDROM, so I used the 2.0.1-RELEASE version and
> made those floppies: boot.flp, fixit.flp, atapi.flp, and root.flp
> in their images on 1.2m floppies.  I used boot.flp floppy to 
> install freebsd kernel, then I got nowhere except keep on
> rebooting automatically by using boot floppy.
> 
> Here is the massage before automatic rebooting:
> 
> Fatal trap12: page fault while in kernel mode
> fault virtual address =0x0
> fault code      =supervisor read, page not present
> instruction pointer   = 0x8:f018c82d

This heavily smells like a hardware problem.  Try changing your memory
timing, or disabling write-back cache.  There's a lot of broken
hardware out there, alas.  (Dos doesn't use the hardware to the amount
a Unix does.)

-- 
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. ;-)