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From: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>
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Subject: Re: 2.1.6.1 + PAO: occasional panic at boot
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> i've just installed 2.1.6.1 and the PAO package from the PAO www site for 
> 2.1.5 - and i'm very pleased!
> 
> The only problem i'm experiencing so far is that i get panics from time
> to time at boot time, after the message for the apm0 driver: "cannot mount
> root". Then i get into ddb and when pressing a key i get the message
> "Card 0 inserted" (there is an 3com 3c589c in slot 0 using the ep driver).

Weird.  But, the apm0 driver doesn't print that out, but the kernel
itself does.  Can you do a backtrace to see whose calling panic()?

> The machine is a digital Hinote 433, 12Mb Ram, 512Mb disk (Toshiba
> MK1924FCV).

How old is the BIOS on this thing?


Nate