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From: colin@arc.isl.melco.co.jp (Colin Daly)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: URGENT HELP REQUIRED - INSTALLATION PROBS
Date: 8 Nov 95 14:58:30
Organization: Mitsubishi Electric, Ofuna, Kanagawa, Japan
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Hello to all you freeBSD gurus,

I hope this is a simple problem because I have to get this installed
today. Ok, the problem is with the booting procedure. From the
documentation I gather I should reach a menu but after the device
probe there is a stuff up and an automatic reboot. Here is more or less
what happens (Compaq DX4, 486/50)
--------------------------------------------------------------------
booting with 
Copyright Messages
probing devices
...
Fatal trap 18:	integer divide fault while in kernel mode

	instruction pointer	= 0x8: 0xf01a5235
	code segment		= base 0x0, limit 0xfffff, type 0x16
				= DPL 0, pres 1, def32 1, gran 1
	processor eflags	= interrupt enabled, IOPL = 0
	current process		= 0 (swapper)
	interrupt mask		=
	panic: integer divide fault

syncing disks...done

Automatic reboot in 15 seconds
------------------------------------------------------------------

Any ideas?
Also what should happen after the successful boot. Where does the
floppy root filesystem come into all this "root.flp". It never prompts
for this floppy and so I don't know what should happen.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Colin.


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 Colin Daly		   | voice : +81-467-41-2108
 Systems Architecture Dept | fax   : +81-467-41-2639
 Mitsubishi Electric Japan | email : colin@arc.isl.melco.co.jp

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