From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 13 15:22:50 2000 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 13 15:22:46 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pike.osd.bsdi.com (pike.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.222]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1317937B404; Wed, 13 Dec 2000 15:22:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from laptop.baldwin.cx (john@jhb-laptop.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.241]) by pike.osd.bsdi.com (8.11.1/8.9.3) with ESMTP id eBDNMWE46445; Wed, 13 Dec 2000 15:22:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <40355.976747841@monkeys.com> Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2000 15:22:41 -0800 (PST) From: John Baldwin To: "Ronald F. Guilmette" Subject: Re: Help! "Fatal trap 1: privledged instruction trap" while inst Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org, Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 13-Dec-00 Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: > > In message <200012132120.eBDLKr310117@mass.osd.bsdi.com>, > Mike Smith wrote: > >>Also, the VESA code isn't in GENERIC, says he just looking. >> >>I'm sorry; I don't have any other great ideas. Try a new video card. 8) > > OK. I went today and bought a new ATI Xpert 98 video card. > > I installed it into the system in question. > > I tried to install FreeBSD again. > > Still no-go. I am getting EXACTLY the same error as before at EXACTLY > the same point in the process. > > Another data point: I had an old FreeBSD 3.3 CD lying around, so I tried > that, and sure enough it works! No problems and I get past the kernel > initial boot. > > So OK chaps... What does it all mean? Install nasm and do the dd pipe Mike Smith suggested (the one on /dev/mem) so we have a guess on how to work around this. > Based on the evidence, I am inclined to say that there is a definite bug > in the FreeBSD 4.1.1 generic kernel. I mean hay! FreeBSD 3.3 boots up > fine on the exact same hardware. 3.3 didn't have VM86 support in the kernel by default. Booting a 3.3 kernel with VM86 will probably crash as well. -- John Baldwin -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message