Trouble with installing FreeBSD to a laptop

[Odd Rune Strømmen]

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 at 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 at 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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