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- From: meixner@rbg.informatik.th-darmstadt.de (Matthias Meixner)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.amiga
- Subject: Re: Panic: Bus error, installing BSD1.1
- Date: 22 Mar 1996 07:27:32 GMT
- Organization: Technische Hochschule Darmstadt
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- Adam Silverstein (adams@earthbound.com) wrote:
- : I'm on an Amiga 4000 w/warpscsi and trying to do a fresh install of
- : BSD1.1 I had 1.0 installed, but thought I should do a "clean" install -
- : besides I wanted to move to another parition. I'm having trouble booting
- : into the install mode (-b) with the kernel provided in the 1.1 relears
- : heirerarchy. If my problem (description below) is kernel related - can I
- : binpatch it? Or where can I find other versions of the kernal that might
- : work with my configuration?
-
- : My system is an A4000/Warp040@25MhZ (18 meg RAM), AOS 3.1...
- : warpscsi.device and ide device being used, A2065 ethernet, Retina Z3...
- : and I have an emplant board in there.
-
- The 1.1-kernel has a bug, that prevents it from working with the RetinaZ3.
- However, I've got a partly working version (the mouse-cursor for X11 is broken).
- I could send if to you via EMail. (However this may last some weeks, since
- we've vacations here till 15.4.)
-
- OR you could find someone who compiles a new kernel for you. Therefore you
- must add the option RETINA_SPEED_HACK in the config file (at least I was told so.)
-
- OR remove the RETINA and compile the kernel yourself.
-
- : Could the emplant board be the trouble maker? Or the interrupt software
- : that it installs at boot time (other emplant users)? Are there still
- : limitations on the placement of root & swap partitions? I seem to
- : remember from installing V1.0 that I needed to have them both on the same
- : logical device... Is that still true under 1.1 (if so, the FAQ fails to
- : mention it).
-
- : Anyway, I'm stuck and I'd _really_ appreciate some help!
-
- : Heres the symptoms:
-
- : I boot loadbsd -b netbsd and everything seems fine. BSD sees me drives
- : and devices, the retina etc.. It sees the swap-root I streamed and gives
- : me a blurb about irreversable instalations and then says:
-
- : ...install?
-
- : I answer Y, I get:
-
- : error
-
- : type 0
- : code a5
- : v=2f843d4
-
- : panic: bus error.....
-
- : any ideas?
-
- : Drives should be partitioned and id'ed correctly - I've checked twice.
-
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- - Matthias Meixner
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