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Date:      Sat, 10 Apr 1999 09:50:12 +0930
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>, Davis <dd002f@uhura.cc.rochester.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: fatal trap! How do I escape?
Message-ID:  <19990410095012.X2142@lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.03.9904091607090.28562-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>; from Doug White on Fri, Apr 09, 1999 at 04:09:26PM -0700
References:  <Pine.SOL.3.96.990409004410.223A-100000@uhura.cc.rochester.edu> <Pine.BSF.4.03.9904091607090.28562-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>

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On Friday,  9 April 1999 at 16:09:26 -0700, Doug White wrote:
> On Fri, 9 Apr 1999, Davis wrote:
>
>> That did it; pcm0 was detected (as pcm1, of course).
>> BUT - several lines later (after the kernel loaded ep0, then npx0), I
>> received the following message:
>>
>> Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode
>> fault virtual address	= 0x4
>> fault code		= supervisor read, page not present
>> instruction pointer	= 0x8:0xf01dc7a2
>> stack pointer		= 0x10:0xf02a6f88
>> frame pointer		= 0x10:0xf02a6f88
>> code segment		= base 0x0, limit 0xfffff, type 0x16
>> 			= DPL 0, pres 1, def32 1, gran 1
>> processor eflags	= interrupt enabled, resume, IOPL=0
>> current process		= 0 ()
>> interrupt mask 		=
>> trap number		= 12
>> panic: page fault
>>
>>
>> This is a 100% reproducible error. Could someone help me out with this?
>> Also, could anyone tell me what I need to do to get /kernel.config to be
>> loaded properly at startup (though that is undesirable at the moment).
>> Thanks in advance to everyone.
>
> I've had odd boot-time crashes like this.  Based on the fault address I'd
> say it's a corrupted pointer.

That's pretty good.  How do you deduce that from the fault address?
That's the usual reason for a "page fault", of course.

Greg
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