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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!gatech!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!news.dfn.de!news.uni-jena.de!news.HRZ.HAB-Weimar.DE!News.HTWM.De!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Installation problem: Page fault by boot floppy Date: 17 Jan 1996 01:50:55 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 27 Message-ID: <4dhklv$r9@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4ddnma$rdb@cville-srv.wam.umd.edu> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.3 zhenli@wam.umd.edu (Zhen Li) writes: > I have a lot of trouble in installing basic freebsd system. > I do not have CDROM, so I used the 2.0.1-RELEASE version and > made those floppies: boot.flp, fixit.flp, atapi.flp, and root.flp > in their images on 1.2m floppies. I used boot.flp floppy to > install freebsd kernel, then I got nowhere except keep on > rebooting automatically by using boot floppy. > > Here is the massage before automatic rebooting: > > Fatal trap12: page fault while in kernel mode > fault virtual address =0x0 > fault code =supervisor read, page not present > instruction pointer = 0x8:f018c82d This heavily smells like a hardware problem. Try changing your memory timing, or disabling write-back cache. There's a lot of broken hardware out there, alas. (Dos doesn't use the hardware to the amount a Unix does.) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)