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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!oleane!jussieu.fr!rain.fr!oops.ip.lu!not-for-mail From: frank@oops.ip.lu (phrank) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: 2.1.5: panic: double fault Date: 18 Jul 1996 01:16:37 +0200 Organization: Infopartners S.A. Luxembourg Lines: 16 Message-ID: <4sjs8l$bpt@oops.ip.lu> NNTP-Posting-Host: oops.ip.lu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] hi, since i'm kinda curious, i've tried to 'upgrade' my (flawlessly) running 2.1 system ;) (according to the 'brute-force' advice in the INSTALL.TXT) but i didn't even get the generic kernel from the boot.flp to boot: the last two lines i got/get to see: rootfs is 1200 Kbyte compiled in MFS panic: double fault hmm ... yes, i've disabled everything which might cause conficts, using the '-c' bootflag ... and i know, i have some kind of weired hardware: a pci-486/120 with aha1542 and more than 16 MB memory. might there be something wrong with the double-bounce-back-buffer code (or what was the name of the 1542 16 MB dma limit workaround...) ? so short, frank