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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!netnews.upenn.edu!news.misty.com!news-xfer.netaxs.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!EU.net!Ireland.EU.net!maths.tcd.ie!not-for-mail From: dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie (David Malone) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Kernal panic when mounting / Date: 2 Apr 1997 10:40:37 +0100 Organization: Dept. of Maths, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland. Lines: 19 Sender: mathnews@graves.maths.tcd.ie Message-ID: <5ht9il$62t@graves.maths.tcd.ie> References: <5hrp7r$e8e$2@news1.xs4all.nl> NNTP-Posting-Host: graves.maths.tcd.ie Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:38322 taco@pulse.nl (Taco Scargo) writes: >As I already described my problem some days ago, but haven't received an >answer yet, here is my question again: >I've got a Pentium with 256 Mb, Adaptec 2940 SCSI, IBM SCSI HD. >FreeBSD 2.1.6 installed, works like a charm with the precompiled 2.1.6 >GENERIC. >However the kernal only finds 64 Mb, therefore I modified the kernal config >and compiled a new kernal. >Booting up works fine, however when it tries to mount the / (root) filesystem, >the kernal panics and reboots the machine. I saw something saying to turn off bounce buffers in another thread. You could see if it works OK with 128MB too - both are just guesses. David.