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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.cis.okstate.edu!newsfeed.ksu.ksu.edu!news.physics.uiowa.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!sgigate.sgi.com!news1.best.com!nntp1.best.com!seventek From: seventek@nntp.best.com (Caffiene Dependent) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Intel Endeavor install problems (639K != 640K -> SIG 11) Date: 7 Apr 1996 21:41:13 GMT Organization: Best Internet Communications Lines: 29 Message-ID: <4k9cpp$mmg@nntp1.best.com> References: <4judaa$c9k@spirit.dynas.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: shellx.best.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Mikko Tyolajarvi (mikko@dynas.se) wrote: : Hi! : Finally it happened: I came across a machine where FreeBSD wouldn't install :-( : (That's FreeBSD 2.1-RELEASE, BTW) : Some background, : We've got some machines with with the Intel Endeavor (Advanced/EV) : motherboard, Pentium 90 or 100, 16 or 32 MB of memory and various ~1GB IDE : disks. : When booting, all report: : BIOS basemem (639K) != RTC basemem (640K) : This flashes by very quickly, and I wouldn't even have noticed, if : the machine I was installing on had not failed to install. It gets : as far as ftp-ing the bin distribution (from a local machine with : a CD drive), then dies on a SIG 11. Could this be the BIOS Srcatch Ram settings? I know that some (many) AMI (others i'm sure) BIOS'es allow you to reduce the base memory size by 1K to be used as the BIOS memory stack. ...Just an idea... seventek@best.com