Date: Sat, 20 Sep 1997 04:24:23 -0400 (EDT) From: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@keystone.westminster.edu> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Install Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.95.970920041747.24239A-100000@keystone.westminster.edu> In-Reply-To: <19970920174556.12779@lemis.com>
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On Sat, 20 Sep 1997, Greg Lehey wrote:
> >> 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?
> > I have a Compaq Presario, originally a Pentium 120, now a Cyrix 6x86 166.
> > I have 24 megs of RAM installed, put there's a aparently a hangup in the
> > Compaq architecture, or the FreeBSD interface to it, which means that only
> > 16 megs is detected with the GENERIC kernel; this was true in 2.1.6, and
> > in 2.2.1; I always have to compile a custom kernel to use more than 16.
> > It panics right after I quit the kernel config and save; I don't get any
> > messages about probes after that; it clears the screen and goes right to
> > the panic. I could see if I can get a screen shot of it; I stil have the
> > SNAP boot.flp here somewhere...
>
> Hmmm. What happens if you don't go into the kernel config?
Just tried it again; didn't go into config. As near as I can tell, it's
the same error. Here's an approximate screen shot; the info's right,
spacing may be off; pen and paper necessary when print screen doesn't
work:
(clear screen)
avail memory = 12886016 (12584k bytes)
Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode
fault virtual address = 0xeffe0000
fault code = supervisor read, page not present
(I imagine that's the important part for now, but here's the rest)
instruction pointer = 0x8:0xeffe0000
stack pointer = 0x10:0xf03ddf44
frame pointer = 0x10:0xf03ddf74
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
trap number = 12
Automatic reboot in 15 seconds, blah blah blah...
Gee, I love this; this is just like copying down traps under OS/2...
:-} MAtt
(.sig sym-linked to /dev/null)
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