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From: Mel <fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net>
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Cc: Jonathan Horne <loudredz71@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: can someone help me out with the vmcore.0 information?
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On Monday 22 September 2008 00:47:18 Jonathan Horne wrote:
> i have a server that just contantly panics and reboots. its a fairly fresh
> install of 7.0-p4.
>
> i have never had a server behave like this and i have no idea really where
> to start.  this is the first line of vmcore.0, is this pertinant?
>
> vmcore.0:sys/i386/i386/bios.c: sig '%s' from 0x%0x to 0x%0x offset %d out
> of BIOS bounds 0x%0x - 0x%0x
>
> if anyone can tell me where to begin for troubleshooting errors like this,
> i would really appreciate the pointers.

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/developers-handbook/kerneldebug.html


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Mel

Problem with today's modular software: they start with the modules
    and never get to the software part.