[wplug-bsd] Signal 11

[Bill Moran]

Ghataora, Hardeep wrote:
> Hey,
>  
> Anyone know why I'm getting a signal 11 when installing FreeBSD 4.9 or 
> 5.1, right after the hard disk formatting is complete I get a 'I caught 
> a signal 11'. The only OS that does this is FreeBSD, other BSDs, and all 
> LINUX work fine. The spec is as follows.
>  
> HP Brio BA410 (yeah, i know, well, it was free)
> GeForce MX AGP
> Intel Pro 10/100+ NIC
> 512MB RAM (in 2x256MB matched memory modules, tried mismatching them too)
> Creative/Ensoniq AudioPCI card
> 40 GB Western Digital IDE hard disk (cable select, primary channel)
> Floppy drive
> 2 CD-ROMs (IDE) (both on cable select, secondary channel)
>  
> I've googled with little luck, any thoughts or pointers would be great.

Have you tested the memory extensively?  sig 11s are frequently caused by
flakey RAM.  I use memtest86 when in doubt:
http://www.memtest86.com

I'm trying to remember what happens immediately after the format, but I
believe the next step is to transfer enough files to the HDD to create a
bootable environment.  If you hit alt-F3 when the sig 11 occurs, is there
anything more helpful on that screen?  Can you tell what the last thing
it was trying to do was?

It might just be incompatible hardware.  But I suspect (from your description)
that something in the install process of FreeBSD is tickling the problem.

-- 
Bill Moran
Potential Technologies
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