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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!news.hawaii.edu!ames!tulane!darwin.sura.net!mips!newsun!gateway.novell.com!terry From: terry@npd.Novell.COM (Terry Lambert) Subject: Re: 386BSD 0.1 installed on DECstation 325 Message-ID: <1992Jul30.174641.15142@gateway.novell.com> Sender: news@gateway.novell.com (NetNews) Nntp-Posting-Host: thisbe.eng.sandy.novell.com Organization: Novell NPD -- Sandy, UT References: <1992Jul30.070050.194@rdg.dec.com> Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 17:46:41 GMT In article <1992Jul30.070050.194@rdg.dec.com> hitchens@untadh.enet.dec.com (Francis J. Hitchens) writes: >I have installed 386BSD on a DECstation 325, a 386 with connors >CP30104 and WD8003EP ethernet card. > >First try was on a 40mb partition, with the patched dist.fs from >agate.berkley.edu . The system part came up after the INSTALL reboot, >but only as far as printing the ethernet device info, then it crashed >with some vm_bla... error, it was too fast for me to read. > >I then installed on the whole disk, and it reboots ok without >crashing. Anybody know why this is so and how to fix it, as I will >have to put DOS back on the whole machine soon if I can't reserve 40mb >for 386BSD alone ? Number one cause of this problem: Your swap partition isn't on an even boundry. Make sure your 386BSD partion starts on an even boundry. -- Terry