scf@statware.UUCP (Steve Fullerton) (07/19/90)
We have been trying to get SCO UNIX running on a CSS 20Mhz 80386 system
for several months now. We keep getting PANICS with a Kernel Trap 0xE.
So far I have tried several EGA cards, disk controllers, and disk drives.
In addition, the mother board with memory was sent to CSS and tested. We
have also run every DOS diagnostic program we can find and never can find
anything wrong. BTW, we have also pulled out the 80387 but to no avail.
Has anyone had any experience :( with an SCO UNIX kernel trap 0xE? If so,
please provide some insight and/or suggestions. Right now this system is
pretty useless.
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Steve Fullerton Statware, Inc.
scf%statware.uucp@cs.orst.edu 260 SW Madison Ave, Suite 109
orstcs!statware!scf Corvallis, OR 97333
503/753-5382erc@pai.UUCP (Eric Johnson) (07/23/90)
In article <7981@statware.UUCP>, scf@statware.UUCP (Steve Fullerton) writes: > We have been trying to get SCO UNIX running on a CSS 20Mhz 80386 system > for several months now. I can sympathize, I'm on install try #8. I've had untold grief with both SCO and Interactive installation procedures. There HAS to be a better way. A good amount of the information is there, but a lot is still missing. The support folks are great--when you finally get ahold of them (and that's the problem). I'm trying to install Open Desktop 1.0, by the way. > We keep getting PANICS with a Kernel Trap 0xE. SCO support stated, I believe (please correct me if I'm wrong), the trap 0xE can be caused by a boot file system with > 1024 cylinders. The SCO support person listed about twenty other things that could cause this, but this was the only one I was sure my system fit. We're using a 600 MB Wren drive, so I'm sure my root file system is > 1024 cylinders. The suggestion was to basically make sure the root file system is within the proper cylinder range. That is, start the root file system as close to cylinder 0 as possible and do not let it go beyond cylinder 1023. Have fun figuring out the math (I decided to move the 600 MB disk to another system and try a 320 MB Wren drive instead). Note that the whole disk can be > 1024 cylinders (again, I believe), just the root filesystem needs to fit within this limitation, since SCO uses the BIOS to start up its boot process. this is a BIOS limitation. Let me guess, you installed the system, or somehow changed what subsystems you have installed, then you shut down your SCO UNIX and got this trap on rebooting. > So far I have tried several EGA cards, disk controllers, and disk drives. > In addition, the mother board with memory was sent to CSS and tested. We > have also run every DOS diagnostic program we can find and never can find > anything wrong. BTW, we have also pulled out the 80387 but to no avail. > > Has anyone had any experience :( with an SCO UNIX kernel trap 0xE? If so, > please provide some insight and/or suggestions. Right now this system is > pretty useless. > > -- > Steve Fullerton Statware, Inc. > scf%statware.uucp@cs.orst.edu 260 SW Madison Ave, Suite 109 > orstcs!statware!scf Corvallis, OR 97333 > 503/753-5382 I have no intention of spreading bad info, so if anything I posted here is incorrect, please tell me right away. I'm only trying to help and I fully admit I don't know all the ins and outs of ISA compatible hardware, except that I know MY definition of compatible is apparently not accepted by the industry. Good luck, -Eric -- Eric F. Johnson phone: +1 612 894 0313 BTI: Industrial Boulware Technologies, Inc. fax: +1 612 894 0316 automation systems 415 W. Travelers Trail email: erc@pai.mn.org and services Burnsville, MN 55337 USA