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Date:      Fri, 08 Nov 2002 16:14:06 -0800
From:      Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
To:        David Schultz <dschultz@uclink.Berkeley.EDU>
Cc:        Sidcarter <sidcarter@symonds.net>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Kernel not booting....Immediate crash
Message-ID:  <3DCC534E.118190CC@mindspring.com>
References:  <20021107204113.A3540@prxysrv.in.ibm.com> <20021109000400.GB3138@HAL9000.homeunix.com>

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David Schultz wrote:
> Thus spake Sidcarter <sidcarter@symonds.net>:
> > Fatal trap 12: page fault while in vm86 mode
> > fault virtual address = 0x9fdc8
>                           ^^^^^^^
> That's a region of memory right before the 640K mark,
> and your BIOS is trying to use it.  This used to work,
> but revision 1.544 of src/sys/i386/i386/machdep.c moved
> the code that mapped in those pages until *after* they
> need to be used.  I (unsuccessfully) petitioned the
> committer who made the change to revert it, so for now
> you'll have to manually remove it, being careful not to
> step on the changes introduced in revisions 1.545 through
> 1.547.

Or look in the -current archives; Mitsuru IWASAKI posted a patch
yesterday at 11:29 PM.

http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=1206362+0+current/freebsd-current

-- Terry

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