From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 2 19:14:50 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ns.ge.com (ns.ge.com [192.35.39.24]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E560615269 for ; Sun, 2 Jan 2000 19:14:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bolte@gsao.gso.med.ge.com) Received: from thomas.ge.com (thomas.ge.com [3.47.28.21]) by ns.ge.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA23868 for ; Sun, 2 Jan 2000 22:14:41 -0500 (EST) Received: from gemed.med.ge.com (gemed.med.ge.com [3.7.12.4]) by thomas.ge.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA28745 for ; Sun, 2 Jan 2000 22:14:41 -0500 (EST) Received: from gsao.gso.med.ge.com (gsao.gso.med.ge.com [3.70.204.2]) by gemed.med.ge.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) with ESMTP id VAA21693 for ; Sun, 2 Jan 2000 21:14:40 -0600 (CST) Received: from cirque.gso.med.ge.com (cirque [3.70.204.36]) by gsao.gso.med.ge.com (8.8.8+Sun/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA04753 for ; Sun, 2 Jan 2000 21:14:38 -0600 (CST) Received: from cirque (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cirque.gso.med.ge.com (8.8.8+Sun/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA23782 for ; Sun, 2 Jan 2000 21:14:38 -0600 (CST) Message-Id: <200001030314.VAA23782@cirque.gso.med.ge.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: "panic: page fault" when loading FreeBSD 3.3 on an Athlon system Reply-To: "Scott Bolte" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-ID: <23778.946869277.1@cirque> Date: Sun, 02 Jan 2000 21:14:38 -0600 From: Scott Bolte Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I have a brand new Athlon system that panics with a page fault whenever I try to load FreeBSD 3.3 on it. I am looking for ways to narrow down the problem to a specific piece of hardware, or ways to obtain more detailed diagnostics. The simple test case is to boot the second CD from Walnut Creek -- the live file system -- and use sysconfig. I select the fixit mode to get a shell prompt. Once I run (find /) I see a "panic: page fault" after just a few seconds. Aside from the obligatory "Syncing disks," no more information is given. This happens with both FreeBSD 3.3 and 2.2.8. Btw, the complex test case involves trying to install FreeBSD 3.3; something which fails every time when loading the /bin distribution. I see this when booting from either a SCSI CD or an IDE CD. It does not matter if there are any hard disks attached. With either a PCI or AGP video card it happens. There are no other cards in the system. The constants are the Athlon 550 CPU, the sole PC100 128MB SDRAM DIMM (with or without ECC enabled), the ASUS K7M motherboard, and the Antec 300W power supply. Swapping the 4 core components mentioned above will be very difficult. Does anyone have a suggestion as to what might be wrong, or how I can obtain more information? Thanks, Scott To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message