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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!inferno.mpx.com.au!nsw1.news.telstra.net!wa.news.telstra.net!news.telstra.net!news-out.internetmci.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.easystreet.com!not-for-mail From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@portsoft.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Kernal panic mounting root. PLEASE HELP !!!! Date: 2 Apr 1997 23:21:52 GMT Organization: Portland Software Lines: 20 Message-ID: <01bc3fbc$d6bf6400$7c01a8c0@teds.portsoft.com> References: <01bc3ec6$1922f7a0$f629e5c2@compaq.webguide.nl> NNTP-Posting-Host: sunnet.portsoft.com X-Newsreader: Microsoft Internet News 4.70.1155 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:38369 Your going to have to spend time experimenting, you cannot do this long-distance. I suggest that you recompile the kernel to use 80MB of ram and see if that works. If it does, then recompile to use 100MB and test, if this works then recompile to use 120MB, etc. etc. etc. However, before doing this I'd suggest you turn all of the caches off in the CMOS and reboot with the large memory kernel, and see if this works. You might have a cache controller on the MB with a bug in it. Taco Scargo <taco@pulse.nl> wrote in article <01bc3ec6$1922f7a0$f629e5c2@compaq.webguide.nl>... > As already described some days ago, I (and some other people I found out) > have the following problem: > > After recompiling the kernal (with no errors), the machine does boot up, > but as soon as it tries to mount / (root) it fails and reboots with a