Date: Fri, 24 Sep 1999 15:58:51 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: "B.Taylor" <dvlboi@home.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: SIGSEGV when building kernel (was: AMD/Kernel probelms) Message-ID: <19990924155851.N54407@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <001d01bf0655$512aa7c0$284e0118@frmt1.sfba.home.com>; from B.Taylor on Thu, Sep 23, 1999 at 11:23:29PM -0700 References: <37EAD828.D9F7F677@corp.home.net> <19990924112940.O53220@freebie.lemis.com> <001d01bf0655$512aa7c0$284e0118@frmt1.sfba.home.com>
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On Thursday, 23 September 1999 at 23:23:29 -0700, B.Taylor wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > On Thursday, September 23, 1999 6:59 PM, Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> wrote: >>> On Thursday, 23 September 1999 at 18:47:20 -0700, B. Taylor wrote: >>>> I am having problems with my BSD box. I have an AMD K6/2 400 with 128 >>>> megs of ram. When I try to make a new kernel I am getting this error: >>>> >>>> -prototypes -Wpointer-arith -Winline -Wuninitialized -Wformat >>>> -Wunused -fformat-extensions -ansi -nostdinc -I- -I. -I../.. >>>> -I../../../include -DKERNEL -DVM_STACK -include opt_global.h -elf >>>> ../../i386/isa/fd.c >>>> cc: Internal compiler error: program cc1 got fatal signal 11 >>>> *** Error code 1 >>>> >>>> My friend has 3 BSD machines in his house and he said that on the two >>>> with an AMD K6/2 processor he is having the same problem. >>> >>> Lots of people, myself included, use the K6. Most of us don't have >>> problems. >>> >>>> is it true that you can not compile a custom kernel on an AMD >>> >>> No. >>> >>>> and if it is not true can you tell me what I am doing wrong? >>> >>> This particular problem points to hardware problems *somewhere*. >>> Typical culprits are memory, either main or cache. It could be that >>> you have your BIOS set up incorrectly. >>> >>> One problem that occurred with the first generation of K6 processors, >>> particularly the K6/233, was overheating. If you have one of them, >>> use a *big* fan. That's no longer an issue with the K6/[23]. > > I just wanted to say thank you. It was bad info and it was in fact a memory > problem. Good to hear. Please copy -questions when the replying; this question, in particular, is of interest to a lot of people. I've copied them now. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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