Fatal Trap 9

[jhampton at sscglobal.net]

If your installing it on a clean system: 1) format harddrive, 2)make sure
the cd(s) are good, 3)set bios to boot from cdrom. When it boots up you
should get the sysinstall screen.

Hope this helps

James

> Hi,
>
> can anyone help,
> I'm still trying to figure out how to solve this fatal trap 9 issue. I
> am trying to install FBSD from an ISO.
> When booting the installer the process stop with this message below
> [summin like this anyway]. Any idea wots the problem.pLease
>
> Thanx
>
>
> Fatal trap 9        = general protection fault while in kernel mode
> instruction pointer    =0x58 :0x4238
> stack pointer        = 0x10: 0xf79
> frame pointer        =0x10: 0xf80
> code segment        = base 0xc00eb000, limit 0xffff, type 0x16
>                    =DPL0, pres 1, def320, gran 0
> processor eflags      = interrupt enable, resume, IOPL =0
> current process       = 0 (swapper)
> trap number 9
>
> panic general protection fault
> Uptime = 1s
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