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Date:      Thu, 11 Sep 1997 21:06:42 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        "Brian D. Howard" <bdh@hfnet.sinai.org>
Cc:        Problems@hfnet.sinai.org, FreeBSD Questions <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Cyrix
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.970911210441.16497H-100000@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <m0x8s7i-0000CgC@hfnet.sinai.org>

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On Wed, 10 Sep 1997, Brian D. Howard wrote:

> On a new motherboard that an existing pair of IDE drives were moved to
> I get the following error:
> 
> 
> Fatal trap 1: privileged instruction fault while in kernel mode.
> instruction pointer	= 0x8:0xf01b99aa
> stack pointer 		= 0x10:0xefbfff38
> frame pointer		= 0x10:0xefbfff50
> code segment		= base 0x0, limit 0xfffff, type 0x1b
> 			= DPL 0, pres 1, def32 1, gran 1
> processor eflags	= resume, IOPL = 0
> current process		= 0 ()
> interrupt mask		= net tty bio
> panic: privileged instrction fault

> 
> When booting the FreeBSD 2.2.2 Walnut Creek June 1997 distribution right
> after the kernel signs on.  This occurs also with install floppy made from
> the CD.

Could you be more specific as to where this appears?  For instance, a
screenshot showing the lines above this would be really helpful for
pinpointing the problem.

If you don't the CPU probe lines (which look like the following on my
Intel P133):

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FreeBSD 2.2-970215-GAMMA #19: Thu Jul 24 20:01:33 PDT 1997
    dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu:/usr/src/sys/compile/GDI
Calibrating clock(s) relative to mc146818A clock ... i586 clock: 133272505
Hz, i
8254 clock: 1193213 Hz
CPU: Pentium (133.27-MHz 586-class CPU)
  Origin = "GenuineIntel"  Id = 0x52c  Stepping=12
  Features=0x1bf<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,MCE,CX8>
real memory  = 41943040 (40960K bytes)
avail memory = 38260736 (37364K bytes)
Probing for devices on PCI bus 0:

If you could point out how far down you get before it panics, that would
be great.

If it doesn't make it to the CPU: line I bet your CPU isn't reacting very
nicely to the CPU probe.  It may not be known as of yet and a probe
routine needs to be written.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
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