From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 25 13:29:34 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8227316A41F for ; Thu, 25 Aug 2005 13:29:34 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jwm-freebsd@sentinelchicken.net) Received: from lakecmmtar04.coxmail.com (lakecmmtar04.coxmail.com [68.99.120.38]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA2BF43D46 for ; Thu, 25 Aug 2005 13:29:33 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jwm-freebsd@sentinelchicken.net) Received: from sentinelchicken.net ([70.183.13.213]) by lakecmmtar04.coxmail.com (InterMail vM.6.01.05.02 201-2131-123-102-20050715) with SMTP id <20050825132933.EEST27582.lakecmmtar04.coxmail.com@sentinelchicken.net> for ; Thu, 25 Aug 2005 09:29:33 -0400 Received: (qmail 20277 invoked from network); 25 Aug 2005 12:38:18 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO numbuscus.sentinelchicken.net) (10.0.0.2) by samson.sentinelchicken.net with SMTP; 25 Aug 2005 12:38:18 -0000 Received: (nullmailer pid 3059 invoked by uid 1000); Thu, 25 Aug 2005 12:25:57 -0000 Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2005 08:25:57 -0400 From: Jason Morgan To: FreeBSD Questions Message-ID: <20050825122557.GA660@sentinelchicken.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Subject: Re: FreeBSD on old laptop, installer panic X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2005 13:29:34 -0000 On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 06:55:57PM -0400, Zac Berkowitz wrote: > I'm giving FreeBSD a go on my laptop, but I'm running into problems > straight off the 5.4-STABLE installer. At first it would hang without an > error. After I disabled power management in the bios I got a bit further > - now it crashes with a panic: > ------------------------------------- > pcib0: pcibus 0 on motherboard > pir0: on motherboard > pci0: on pcib0 > > Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode > fault virtual address = 0xeb871 > fault code = supervisor read, page not present > instruction pointer = 0x8 :0xc00eb757 > stack pointer = 0x10 :0xc1020a0 > frame pointer = 0x10 :0xc1020a0 > code segment = base 0x0, limit 0xfffff, type 0x1b > = DPL 0, pres 1, def32 1, IOPL = 0 > processor eflags = interrupt enabled, resume, IOPL = 0 > current process = 0 > trap number =12 > > panic: page fault > -------------------------------------------- > > Some googling with the fault virtual address turned up a few pages, but > none in english and seemingly none coming to a solution. lspci -v in linux > gives me > > ------------------------------------- > 0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX AGP bridge > (rev 03) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode]) > Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 0 > Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=0 > I/O behind bridge: 00008000-00009fff > Memory behind bridge: d8000000-dfffffff > Prefetchable memory behind bridge: d0000000-d7ffffff > ------------------------------------- > > Any ideas? Usually my *NIX give me panics /after/ I get through installing > them : p > I've had the same problem on an old laptop. I was told to try older releases (tried 4.11 and 5.4). I haven't gotten around to it, but that's somewhere to start. Cheers, Jason