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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!news.cis.okstate.edu!newsfeed.ksu.ksu.edu!news.physics.uiowa.edu!newsrelay.iastate.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!newsfeed.internetmci.com!News.LiveNet.Net!ns1 From: jsloan@livnet.com (Jim Sloan) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Intel Endeavor install problems (639K != 640K -> SIG 11) Date: Mon, 08 Apr 96 14:40:29 GMT Organization: LiveNet, Inc. Lines: 46 Message-ID: <4kb8mo$1vt@PaperBoy.LiveNet.Net> References: <4judaa$c9k@spirit.dynas.se> <4k9cpp$mmg@nntp1.best.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: green.colours.livenet.net X-Newsreader: News Xpress 2.0 Beta #0 In article <4k9cpp$mmg@nntp1.best.com>, seventek@nntp.best.com (Caffiene Dependent) wrote: >Mikko Tyolajarvi (mikko@dynas.se) wrote: >: Hi! > >: Finally it happened: I came across a machine where FreeBSD wouldn't install > :-( >: (That's FreeBSD 2.1-RELEASE, BTW) > >: Some background, > >: We've got some machines with with the Intel Endeavor (Advanced/EV) >: motherboard, Pentium 90 or 100, 16 or 32 MB of memory and various ~1GB IDE >: disks. > >: When booting, all report: > >: BIOS basemem (639K) != RTC basemem (640K) > >: This flashes by very quickly, and I wouldn't even have noticed, if >: the machine I was installing on had not failed to install. It gets >: as far as ftp-ing the bin distribution (from a local machine with >: a CD drive), then dies on a SIG 11. > > Could this be the BIOS Srcatch Ram settings? > > I know that some (many) AMI (others i'm sure) BIOS'es allow you >to reduce the base memory size by 1K to be used as the BIOS memory stack. > > ...Just an idea... > >seventek@best.com I had similar problems installing and my solution was to turn off both internal and L2 cache while installing, once installed, turn them back on and everything worked like a cham ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Jim Sloan jsloan@livenet.net Vice President LiveNet, Inc. 413 Davis St. Suite 106 Full Service Internet Provider Virginia Beach VA 23462 Dialup and dedicated connections Ph: 804-499-9328 Virtual Web, Email, and FTP hosting http://www.livenet.net info@livenet.net webmaster@livenet.net ------------------------------------------------------------------------