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Date:      Sat, 23 Sep 1995 19:43:03 -0700 (PDT)
From:      "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@GndRsh.aac.dev.com>
To:        tommy@inlab.m.eunet.de (Thomas Obermair)
Cc:        freebsd-current@freefall.freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Any coincidence between bug report 688 and the SIG11 problem ?
Message-ID:  <199509240243.TAA00882@GndRsh.aac.dev.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.950923183614.798A-100000@inlab.m.eunet.de> from "Thomas Obermair" at Sep 23, 95 06:51:45 pm

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> 
> 
> Hello, 
> 
> I have since I am trying to install FreeBSD on my pentium 90 machine
> (asus P565TP4XE mainboard) some problems. The first time I was installing
> directly from the 2.0.5 CD-ROM I have a problem that is at it's best
> represented by the bug report 688 (Page fault: supervisor write, page not 
> present) in GNATS. When I try to run different kernels (*-SNAP, current
> etc..) the problem seems to change for me to the obviously well known
> SIG 11/10 problem. For me the two problems seem to be basically the
> same but it could be that there are two errors though. 
> 
> OK, I would be glad hearing from you concerning the following questions:
> 
> - Does anyone have found the same coincidence between the two errors ?
> - Does the SIG 11 problem exist in 2.0.5 for faster machines ?
> - Does anyone run an asus P55TP4XE motherboard succesfully with freebsd of 
>   *any* kind at this time ?

100+ customers of mine are running some variant of FreeBSD on this board,
it is not a board problem.  Run -stable, it runs just fine on this board,
if you still see sig 11's running -stable then you either have bad memory,
bad cache or a bad MB.

> - Does it make sense to run simply a (SIG 11 fixed) GENERIC kernel of
>   current leaving the entire 2.0.5 installation unchanged (for a 
>   first time fix) ?
> - Does anyone supply GERNERIC kernels of current for testing ? Where
>   could I find them ?
> 
> Thank you all for your great work and patience,
> Thanks for any reply,
> Regards, 
> Thomas
> 
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> 
> 


-- 
Rod Grimes                                      rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com
Accurate Automation Company                 Reliable computers for FreeBSD



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