From owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 15 23:59:24 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 43D1416A4CE for ; Tue, 15 Feb 2005 23:59:24 +0000 (GMT) Received: from srv1.cosmo-project.de (srv1.cosmo-project.de [213.83.6.106]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 79D6643D2D for ; Tue, 15 Feb 2005 23:59:23 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ticso@cicely12.cicely.de) Received: from cicely5.cicely.de (cicely5.cicely.de [10.1.1.7]) (authenticated bits=0)j1FNxJGw005072 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=OK); Wed, 16 Feb 2005 00:59:21 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from ticso@cicely12.cicely.de) Received: from cicely12.cicely.de (cicely12.cicely.de [IPv6:3ffe:400:8d0:301::12]) by cicely5.cicely.de (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j1FNwO55037538 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Wed, 16 Feb 2005 00:58:24 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from ticso@cicely12.cicely.de) Received: from cicely12.cicely.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cicely12.cicely.de (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j1FNwNgp015420; Wed, 16 Feb 2005 00:58:23 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from ticso@cicely12.cicely.de) Received: (from ticso@localhost) by cicely12.cicely.de (8.12.11/8.12.11/Submit) id j1FNwN7a015419; Wed, 16 Feb 2005 00:58:23 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from ticso) Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 00:58:23 +0100 From: Bernd Walter To: Tom Ponsford Message-ID: <20050215235823.GB14678@cicely12.cicely.de> References: <420E3483.8090609@theriver.com> <20050215120805.GE7576@cicely12.cicely.de> <421282A3.3040308@theriver.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <421282A3.3040308@theriver.com> X-Operating-System: FreeBSD cicely12.cicely.de 5.2-CURRENT alpha User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.9 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=no version=2.64 X-Spam-Report: * -4.9 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 0 to 1% * [score: 0.0000] X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.64 (2004-01-11) on cicely12.cicely.de cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: kernel panic on AS100A X-BeenThere: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: ticso@cicely.de List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the Alpha List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 23:59:24 -0000 On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 04:15:47PM -0700, Tom Ponsford wrote: > > > Bernd Walter wrote: > >On Sat, Feb 12, 2005 at 09:53:23AM -0700, Tom Ponsford wrote: > > > >>Hi All, > >> > >>I picked up a AS 1000A a few weeks ago. It has an EV5 300mhz cpu, 64MB > >>mem, and 3 disks attached to a KZPSC raid controller ( a DAC960), , which > >>is supported by freebsd. > >>I upgraded to v2.70 on the raid controller and the dmesg readout did not > >>show any error messages, BUT the machine get a kernel panic after > >>mounting the mfsroot complaining about a memory management fault. > > > >Strange this is the fdc0 process. > >Maybe you are getting out of physical RAM and the fdc driver fails to > >handle this properly - 64M is not very much for such a machine. > > > > Yeah, I'll dig up some more ram. but I wanted to see if the install worked > first. > It actually ran NT with that much ram. Undoubtly a very old NT version, because NT doesn't support alpha since years. FreeBSD4.x memory load is also much less than that of 5.x. Well - I did run -current on a 64M alpha only a few weeks ago, but with a custom build kernel and without the install image loaded into a memory disk. Nevertheless - even if this is the cause we should at least get a meaningfull error message instead of this panic. -- B.Walter BWCT http://www.bwct.de bernd@bwct.de info@bwct.de