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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!newsfeed.internetmci.com!EU.net!sun4nl!Utrecht.NL.net!news.iaf.nl!news.es.iaf.nl!yedi!wilko From: wilko@yedi.iaf.nl (Wilko Bulte) Subject: Re: Installation problem: Page fault by boot floppy Organization: Private FreeBSD site - Arnhem, The Netherlands Message-ID: <DLEDsv.1JA@yedi.iaf.nl> References: <4ddnma$rdb@cville-srv.wam.umd.edu> <4dhklv$r9@uriah.heep.sax.de> <4dj7c7$p5o@maze.dpo.uab.edu> Date: Thu, 18 Jan 1996 22:14:55 GMT Lines: 21 David Mackay <Zu02375@uabdpo.dpo.uab.edu> writes: >> 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.) >This looks like the message that I got when I tried to install 2.1R on a >machine with 4 MB of memory. Adding more memory cleared the problem >right up. The release notes tell you you need 5Mb or better. 4Mb was a sure crasher when I tested it here on a spare machine Wilko