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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!netnews.upenn.edu!dsinc!newsfeed.pitt.edu!gatech!news.mathworks.com!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!gumby!newspump.wustl.edu!oldfart.ecl.wustl.edu!news From: jxh@plethora.cs.wustl.edu (James Hu) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Installation problem: Page fault by boot floppy Date: 21 Jan 1996 18:49:38 -0600 Organization: Washington University, St. Louis Lines: 21 Sender: jxh@plethora.cs.wustl.edu Message-ID: <qtfvim5njdp.fsf@plethora.cs.wustl.edu> References: <4ddnma$rdb@cville-srv.wam.umd.edu> <4dhklv$r9@uriah.heep.sax.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: plethora.cs.wustl.edu In-reply-to: j@uriah.heep.sax.de's message of 17 Jan 1996 01:50:55 GMT X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.1 >>>>> "J" == J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> writes: In article <4dhklv$r9@uriah.heep.sax.de> j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) writes: J> zhenli@wam.umd.edu (Zhen Li) writes: >> >> Fatal trap12: page fault while in kernel mode fault virtual address >> =0x0 fault code =supervisor read, page not present instruction >> pointer = 0x8:f018c82d J> This heavily smells like a hardware problem. Try changing your J> memory timing, or disabling write-back cache. There's a lot of J> broken hardware out there, alas. (Dos doesn't use the hardware to J> the amount a Unix does.) Is there a document about what additional hardware dependencies 2.1 has assumed from 2.0.5? I am still wondering why I am having so much trouble getting 2.1 stable while 2.0.5 always seems to install without a hitch. -- James