Date: Sat, 20 Sep 1997 17:24:18 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@keystone.westminster.edu> Cc: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Install Message-ID: <19970920172418.60708@lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.95.970920034511.24124A-100000@keystone.westminster.edu>; from Matthew D. Fuller on Sat, Sep 20, 1997 at 03:46:28AM -0400 References: <19970920154826.39603@lemis.com> <Pine.BSI.3.95.970920034511.24124A-100000@keystone.westminster.edu>
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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
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