Maybe someone here can help me out. I wanted to try out FreeBSD, so I have been trying to install 5.3 for i386 on a crappy P1 with 64MB RAM and a BIOS that is borked in that it can't boot from CD-ROM though it says it can.
What I have done:
1. Created the necessary boot floppy disks via fdimage.exe from MSDOS (3 disks: 1 boot and 2 kernel).
2. Booted from the first floppy and went through the process of swapping the disks as ordered by the loader until the FBSD run screen came up.
3. Started FreeBSD.
What happened:
After probing all (I think) the devices, I got a kernel panic. Here are some of the details of that (it looks serious):
Code:
Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode
fault virtual address = 0x0
fault code = supervisor read, page not present
instruction pointer = 0x8:0x0
stack pointer = 0x10:0xc1021d50
frame pointer = 0x10:0xc1021d60
(. . . and so on until . . .)
panic: page fault
Uptime: 1s
Cannot dump. No dump device defined.
In order to determine if my PC was screwed up royally or if BSD just wasn't playing nice with it, i tried to run <a href="http://www.toms.net/rb/">tomsrtbt-2.0.103 Linux</a>. I was successful---no panic. I'm still very new to *NIX (I have only a tiny bit of experience with ArchLinux). Can someone point me in the right direction here? What's the problem?