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From: j@bonnie.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: 2.0.5 install kernel panic
Date: 7 Aug 1995 12:06:38 +0200
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Keywords: kernel panic when installing from any type of media

Justin England <england@netcom.com> wrote:

>I am able to boot off a floppy, configure my NE2000 card, partition and label 
>my SCSI HD, but once I choose to commit, it will create the new filesystem 
>with no problems, but it panics once it starts to copy the root filesystem off
>the CDROM.  Sometimes it does get past that, but then it will crash with the 
>same panic after about 10-20% of coping the bin files from the CDROM. ...

>Pentium90mhz
>Intel Triton chipset
>16MB RAM
>aha1542b SCSI controller

>panic: page fault
>fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode

memory timing problems
cache coherency problems (though i _believe_ the Triton is ok)
-- 
cheers, J"org                      private:   joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
                                   http://www.sax.de/~joerg/

Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)