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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.erols.net!EU.net!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Another Install Problem Date: 25 Oct 1996 21:34:20 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 31 Message-ID: <54rbos$9ta@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <54f3ik$447@nadine.teleport.com> 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 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E tlw@teleport.com (Tommy Willoughby) wrote: > Install seems to work fine, creating a file system, copying files, etc. > Then it says something like "writing -c boot changes to kernal..." > It then dies with a message something like (I didn't write it down, sorry) > "Fatal interrupt 11 caught... I'm dead". Hmpf. Seems like something for Jordan... Jordan??? Are you here? :) > The above language is probably incorrect, but the number 11 most certainly > is what the message says. A segmentation violation. Most likely a programmer's error... > I'd really like to install this... I believe you're already done, except that your setup values are certainly not yet saved. Have you tried booting the system off the hard disk? Boot it with -c again, adjust your settings, and then continue to multi-user. Login as `root', and see if you can make sense in editing /etc/sysconfig. You might also try running /stand/sysinstall for things like loading additional packages. -- 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. ;-)