From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Sep 20 00:54:31 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id AAA28177 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 20 Sep 1997 00:54:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (gregl1.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id AAA28172 for ; Sat, 20 Sep 1997 00:54:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) id RAA24724; Sat, 20 Sep 1997 17:24:19 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19970920172418.60708@lemis.com> Date: Sat, 20 Sep 1997 17:24:18 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: "Matthew D. Fuller" Cc: Doug White , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Install References: <19970920154826.39603@lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.81e In-Reply-To: ; from Matthew D. Fuller on Sat, Sep 20, 1997 at 03:46:28AM -0400 Organisation: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8250 Fax: +61-8-8388-8250 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Fight-Spam-Now: http://www.cauce.org Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, Sep 20, 1997 at 03:46:28AM -0400, Matthew D. Fuller wrote: > On Sat, 20 Sep 1997, Greg Lehey wrote: > >> On Fri, Sep 19, 1997 at 10:00:55PM -0700, Doug White wrote: >>> On Thu, 18 Sep 1997, Matthew D. Fuller wrote: >>> >>>> Never had a problem with PPP, even under heavy load, back when I had the >>>> machine up. What newer boot floppy? I was using the newer/boot.flp under >>>> 2.2.2-RELEASE, the 2.1.7.1 is older, and the 3.0-SNAP kernel from >>>> ftp.freebsd.org page faults after the kernel config thingy. >>>> Or shouldn't it do that...? >>> >>> It shouldn't page fault. >> >> What do you people mean by page faulting? Page faults are a normal >> operation, and you can be sure that it will page fault several times >> on startup. > > I mean, I do the kernel config, delete all the things I don't have, then > it gives a message about a page fault, Doug replied to me privately. The "message about a page fault" said "Panic:". That's not OK, of course, but the "Page fault" there is just *slightly* out of its normal context. > a bunch of addresses, something > about supervicor read failed...? > Then it says system will reboot in 15 secs. > I tried taking out everything I don't have, leaving everything in, and a > couple random configs. Same result.. This looks like a bug to me. In fact, there's no question: anything that causes the kernel to panic is a bug. Are you saying that the system panics during boot? Can you say exactly where? How much memory does your machine have? Greg