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From: jsloan@livnet.com (Jim Sloan)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Intel Endeavor install problems (639K != 640K -> SIG 11)
Date: Mon, 08 Apr 96 14:40:29 GMT
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In article <4k9cpp$mmg@nntp1.best.com>, seventek@nntp.best.com (Caffiene Dependent) wrote:
>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


I had similar problems installing and my solution was to turn off both 
internal and L2 cache while installing, once installed, turn them back on and 
everything worked like a cham

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