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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.bhp.com.au!mel.dit.csiro.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.uoknor.edu!news.nodak.edu!netnews1.nwnet.net!news.u.washington.edu!news.alt.net!news1.alt.net!news.oz.net!news.sprintlink.net!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!weld.news.pipex.net!pipex!plug.news.pipex.net!pipex!tube.news.pipex.net!pipex!lade.news.pipex.net!pipex!tcp.co.uk!usenet From: Simon Bond <bondsc@tcp.co.uk> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: 2.1 install problem Date: Sat, 27 Jan 1996 18:04:05 +0000 Organization: Total Connectivity Providers - Internet access for the UK Lines: 33 Message-ID: <310A6915.35EF@tcp.co.uk> References: <jamontDLJJoD.GLq@netcom.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: an078.du.pipex.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0b6a (Win95; I) jamont@netcom.com wrote: >I'm trying to install FreeBSD 2.1, when I try to boot the distribution >boot floppy things proceed until I get: >... >root fs is 1000Kb compiled in MFS >Fatal trap 18: integer divide fault while in kernel mode >instruction pointer: 0x8:0xf0197f1b >... I have a similar problem. I don't actually get a fatal trap error, but nothing happens at all. I have tried booting with the -c option, typing 'visual' and disabling / configuring hardware I don't have / have. This doesn't help. However, I have noticed that if I disable the keyboard (Input - System console driver) then I do get beyond that point - The install menu appears but of course, I can't use the keyboard. That may sound strange (Disabling the keyboard to get it to work) but I have tried it many times and that is definately the case. I'm also using FreeBSD 2.1 slakware release and my system is: 486DX266 with 16Mg RAM, PCI bus, AHA2940Wide PCI SCSI card - 2Gb Seagate Wide Hawk, 2Gb Capella Fast SCSI 2 and Toshiba XM3401 4x speed SCSI CDROM, Diamond stealth 64 2Mb VRAM, NE2000 compatible e/card. but I'm certain there are no conflicts with the above since it works fine in 95, NT, Linux with no problem