Toshiba T2100 Install Trouble

Matthew Seaman m.seaman at infracaninophile.co.uk
Fri Aug 22 01:41:09 PDT 2003


On Fri, Aug 22, 2003 at 01:53:06PM +1000, Aaron ILES wrote:
> 
> I'm attempting to install FreeBSD 5.1 on a Toshiba T2100 laptop.
> (That's a x486 with 8meg of RAM booting from floppies)
> 
> The kernel and MFS root are uncompressed ok, however, when booting the
> kernel the boot pauses after just a few seconds, screens worth of
> something is printed and the machine reboots. All this happens to
> quickly for me to read most of the output. I did however read this line.
> 
> > fatal trap 12  ...
> 
> I have also attempted this install with FreeBSD 4.7. A similar reboot
> occurs. No copious output is produced though.
> 
> Does any one know how to log the install process so I can debug this
> further?
> 
> Does any one know what fatal trap 12 is?

That's a SIGSYS "non-existent system call invoked".  However, in this
case it probably means that either there's some sort of hardware
problem with your system or that your system is not capable of running
a recent version of FreeBSD -- 8Mb is cutting it pretty fine: probably
too fine.  Check the archives, but I believe you need at least 12Mb to
install 4.x.

	Cheers,

	Matthew

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