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From: dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie (David Malone)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Kernal panic when mounting /
Date: 2 Apr 1997 10:40:37 +0100
Organization: Dept. of Maths, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.
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taco@pulse.nl (Taco Scargo) writes:

>As I already described my problem some days ago, but haven't received an 
>answer yet, here is my question again:

>I've got a Pentium with 256 Mb, Adaptec 2940 SCSI, IBM SCSI HD.
>FreeBSD 2.1.6 installed, works like a charm with the precompiled 2.1.6 
>GENERIC.

>However the kernal only finds 64 Mb, therefore I modified the kernal config 
>and compiled a new kernal.

>Booting up works fine, however when it tries to mount the / (root) filesystem, 
>the kernal panics and reboots the machine.

I saw something saying to turn off bounce buffers in another thread.
You could see if it works OK with 128MB too - both are just guesses.

	David.