From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 11 21:06:57 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id VAA28780 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 11 Sep 1997 21:06:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts17-line11.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.228]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id VAA28768 for ; Thu, 11 Sep 1997 21:06:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id VAA16595; Thu, 11 Sep 1997 21:06:43 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 11 Sep 1997 21:06:42 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: "Brian D. Howard" cc: Problems@hfnet.sinai.org, FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Cyrix In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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): Copyright (c) 1992-1996 FreeBSD Inc. Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. 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 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 http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major Spam routed to /dev/null by Procmail | Death to Cyberpromo