Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2008 12:07:17 -0400 From: Robert Fitzpatrick <lists@webtent.net> To: Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@FreeBSD.org> Cc: FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: page fault while in kernel mode Message-ID: <1224518837.13417.6.camel@columbus.webtent.org> In-Reply-To: <20081019201657.GA84733@icarus.home.lan> References: <1224445801.6926.0.camel@laptop.webtent.org> <20081019201657.GA84733@icarus.home.lan>
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On Sun, 2008-10-19 at 13:16 -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 03:50:01PM -0400, Robert Fitzpatrick wrote: > > I took a working 5.4-i386 server and trying to convert its RAID 5 to > > RAID 10 and load 7.0 amd64. I kept getting BTX halted even after > > flashing the latest bios and firmware for the raid card, Intel SRCZCR, > > in this dual Xeon 2.4GHz supermicro superserver. I have another server, > > bit newer, but same basic hardware makeup with Xeon 3.0 procs that runs > > 6.1-amd64 fine. Anyway, so I have resorted to the i386 version of 7.0 to > > see if the server is just incapable of running amd64, which after > > passing the initial boot where amd64 failed, now gives me the subject > > error after some reference to GEOM_LABEL. I did rebuild the RAID to > > RAID-10, can someone tell me what this error means? > > > > http://columbus.webtent.org/freebsd.png > > Can you please try 7.1-BETA2 instead (ISOs are now available)? There > have been fixes/improvements to BTX since 7.0-RELEASE which could fix > your problem. > Thanks, but that didn't work either trying 7.1-BETA2 amd64 :( Forgot to mention I added memory to this server as well, took it from 2GB it was using under 5.4-RELEASE up to 6GB filling all slots, that is why I wanted to load amd64. I reduced down to 4GB and now am able to install 7.0-RELEASE i386. Does this mean that I may have a hardware issue or can FreeBSD produce the page fault I was getting when using over 4GB with i386? I would love to figure out this BTX halted issue instead...any ideas on that? -- Robert
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