Re: Trouble with installing FreeBSD to a laptop

From: Odd Rune Strømmen (oddrune_at_anipsyche.net)
Date: 12/17/03

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    To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
    Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2003 07:35:27 +0100
    
    

    Yet another little update, now it fails with the exact same panic during the
    actual install process,
    sysinstall recieves a signal 11 and poof...away it goes.

    The only documentation i've found is an old mail that says that "panic:
    double fault" was an known
    error back in FreeBSD 2.2.2, occuring when a user had 48 megs of RAM
    installed... I have 512, it shouldn't have anything at all to do with
    eachother, this I'm sure of.

    --
    Yet another sleepless night..
    Odd Rune Strømmen
    >To: "Odd Rune Strømmen" <oddrune@anipsyche.net>
    >Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2003 12:06 AM
    > Just thought i'd give a little update, i disabled ACPI for the boot and,
    > strangely enough,
    > the panic didn't occur, i turn it back on and it's there agian. I would
    > still like to know what the heck it was though, as i see no logical link
    > between "Advanced Configuration and Power Interface" and this panic...
    >
    > --
    > Still fiddeling on...
    > Odd Rune Strømmen
    >
    >
    >
    > >To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
    > >Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2003 11:38 PM
    > >
    > > Hi.
    > >
    > > I'm having some troubles with installing FreeBSD on my laptop. I've
    tried
    > > both FreeBSD 5.1-RC1 and FreeBSD 5.2-RC1, and the installation fails
    both
    > > times, though differently.
    > >
    > > My laptop is a HP Omnibook XE3 and according to this webpage (
    > >
    >
    http://gerda.univie.ac.at/freebsd-laptops/index.pl?action=show_laptop_detail&laptop=37
    > > )  it should work.
    > >
    > > So onto the interesting stuff..
    > >
    > > It doesn't really fail on installing, it's more accurate to say that it
    > > fails while loading the kernel and starting the different devices. It
    > fails
    > > with:
    > >
    > > Fatal double fault:
    > > eip = 0xc07c7a40
    > > esp = 0xc91e3000
    > > ebp = 0xc91e4800
    > > cpuid = 0; apic id = 00
    > > panic: double fault
    > > cpuid = 0;
    > >
    > > Now, I've been programming ASM for a few years, and I recognize the
    > > registers, eip, esp and ebp and the hex-values that has been put on
    them,
    > > but i can't seem to figure out the why the kernel panics (I'm just
    > guessing
    > > that it does, am I correct?)
    > >
    > > --
    > > When the 5.1 kernel fails, it spouts out some jibberish that i think
    might
    > > have something to do with the CD beeing bad, I won't get into that one
    > right
    > > now as i should probably investigate that case a little myself before i
    > post
    > > it to the list.
    > > --
    > >
    > > The funny part is that I've installed FreeBSD 5.1-RC1 to this exact same
    > > computer before (5.1-RC1 that is), but a job required me to install
    winXP
    > > and that was done, on a short time basis.  Now that I want to go back to
    > > FreeBSD.. well. I've probably made my point clear. I can't get it in.
    > >
    > > Does someone have any idea about this error message, or can help me with
    > at
    > > least understandig why the kernel panics? (Assuming that it does... It
    > syncs
    > > the discs right afterwards and then reboots after 5 minutes of idling.)
    > >
    > >
    > > --
    > > Sincerely
    > > Odd Rune Strømmen
    > >
    > >
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