Try removing/disabling hardare (PNP devices?).  One at a time until you
figure it out.  Process of elimination.

--Brian

On Mon, 3 Sep 2001, scott worley wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I downloaded and burned 1.5.1 i386cd.iso and the installation is failing
> during kernel boot.
>
> ....
> fdc0 at isa0 port 0x3f0-0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2
> fd0 at fdc0 drive 0: 1.44MB, 80 cyl, 2 head, 18 sec
> isapnp0: no ISA Plug 'n Play devices found
> biomask ffe5 netmask ffe5 ttymask ffe7
> kernel: protection fault trap, code=0
> Stopped in swapper at 0xc02a960d:  movl 0xc0363ae0,%edx
> db>
>
> sometimes it goes a litter farther and then hangs(this is the same hang
> I get with 1.5.1 boot floppies)
> ....
> biomask ffe5 netmask ffe5 ttymask ffe7
> md0: internal 2048K image area
> WARNING: old BSD partition ID!
> boot device: fd0
> root on md0a dumps on md0b
> root file system type: ffs
>
> The system is an Abit BX6 motherboard with:
> PII-300 running at 266MHz
> 128MB RAM
> Seagate 20GB UDMA on primary IDE
> ACER 32X CDROM  on secondary IDE
> ATI All-In-Wonder Pro
> Yamaha 724 PCI Audio
> SIIG Firewire PCI card, no devices attached.
>
> Note, I installed FreeBSD 4.3 on this system with no problems.
>
> I'm a BSD newbie and don't know what kind of debugging I should do next.
>  Wanted to get NetBSD installed to start learning BSD for embedded work.
>
> thanks in advance
> scott worley
> folokai@earthlink.net
>
>
>
>

--Brian

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