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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!news-res.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!swrinde!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.mathworks.com!nntp.primenet.com!uucp.primenet.com!news.typo.org!web From: BOFH <web@typo.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Can't boot 2.1 with 16MB? Date: 8 Aug 1996 07:53:07 GMT Organization: typo.org Lines: 22 Message-ID: <4uc6d3$4ju@typo.org> References: <4ubva8$noa@news3.realtime.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.primenet.com Tushar Patel <tushar@ecpi.com> wrote: : I had 386 machine with 8MB of ram and running 2.1 FreeBSD on it fine. : I put 16MB of memory and when I try to boot now then I get following : message. : fatal trap 12 page fault while in address .... : Fault virtual address 0x701ed7a4 : fault code = Supervisor read, page not present : = 0xc : panic vm_page_free freeing free page... 'Couple of possibilities.. either cmos actually needs to be told how much ram is present and its wrong... or... that simm is just plain bad. What you saw was either the boot program or the kernel itself panicing during load. -Wayne