From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 10 20:32:05 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C760716A4CE for ; Wed, 10 Mar 2004 20:32:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from agminet01.oracle.com (agminet01.oracle.com [141.146.126.228]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 941F343D41 for ; Wed, 10 Mar 2004 20:32:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from niraj17@iitbombay.org) Received: from rgmgw5.us.oracle.com (rgmgw5.us.oracle.com [138.1.191.14]) i2B4W4V7027188 for ; Wed, 10 Mar 2004 20:32:04 -0800 Received: from rgmgw5.us.oracle.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) i2B4W1p04324 for ; Wed, 10 Mar 2004 21:32:01 -0700 (MST) Received: from iitbombay.org (indl195ec.idc.oracle.com [152.69.162.195]) i2B4Vvp04094 for ; Wed, 10 Mar 2004 21:32:00 -0700 (MST) Message-ID: <404FEBB1.4040909@iitbombay.org> Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 10:01:45 +0530 From: Niraj Kumar User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030922 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: 5.2.1 : general protection fault without ACPI X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 04:32:05 -0000 Hi , I just installed 5.2.1 on my AMD Athlon 2600+ (Asus a7n8x-vm motherboard) and my system was very unstable . Frequent crashes and lockups , so I decided to boot without ACPI . But when I selected to boot without ACPI (Second option in boot menu) , I got this general protection fault : ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ata1: at 0x170 irq 15 on atapci0 ata1: [MPSAFE] pcib2: at device 30.0 on pci0 pci2: on pcib2 pci_cfgintr: 2:0 INTA BIOS irq 11 pci2 : at device 0.0 (no driver attached) Fatal trap 9: genenral protection fault while in kernel mode cpuid=0; apic id = 00 instruction pointer = 0x58:0x22ac stack pointer = 0x10:0xf80 fram pointer = 0x10:0x0 code segment = base 0xc00f0000 limit 0xffff type 0x1b = DPL 0 , pres 1 , def32 0 , gran 0 Processor eflags = interupt enabled , resume , IOPL = 0 current process = 0 (swapper) trap number = 9 cpuid = 0 uptime = 1s Automatic reboot in 15 seconds - press a key on console to abort ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- So the result is that I am unable to boot with ACPI off and if I am booting with ACPI I have a very unstabe system . A dmesg output for normal boot (with ACPI) can be found here : http://niraj.4t.com/freebsd/ I am willing to provide more info , if I can understand how to get that . The above "general protection fault" message I had to copy by hand . Niraj