From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 26 23:17:43 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC60A1065674 for ; Mon, 26 May 2008 23:17:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from deathjestr@gmail.com) Received: from yw-out-2324.google.com (yw-out-2324.google.com [74.125.46.31]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7314A8FC14 for ; Mon, 26 May 2008 23:17:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from deathjestr@gmail.com) Received: by yw-out-2324.google.com with SMTP id 9so1348940ywe.13 for ; Mon, 26 May 2008 16:17:38 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; bh=LlB9/VFHo24YPtZzRqB2jqvjwu8sO4B8gitTa9/BqtE=; b=wykHB2dqZc2cERkB+gKVnshNgrFQs5m3Hd9SnPqY3dJH+OUgOsRLLJbZBD7bUuXwkkH+me4eZmb5eVaqDwnO8KQkKSVPASlAH3C9k0qyfbYYz9T8vmfLjGND8R7YGk3VjjykMoMYrlZBf/D8v8eq+eglLYhaSj4GKUz2bXa0Zlc= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=pcmtXyBtJpD2KMmKYCRHUikGtYfW9qWWaP69blOcwk8YPO2IRNfBuN0NDqgzkDLcL1x+nKiMwBDZoHSE14K3mOaezMW78yGXAJi3p0wFEyleSRbN9RAL/zh56MFIdWhasIKBSy4ddsmxE9I1+cS5cRYP96HDmzjFuTskDNUqz4c= Received: by 10.78.203.20 with SMTP id a20mr673754hug.21.1211842331355; Mon, 26 May 2008 15:52:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.78.100.7 with HTTP; Mon, 26 May 2008 15:52:11 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <44b564930805261552w7cd8116fr7263ad6ce49d718a@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 26 May 2008 17:52:11 -0500 From: Mike To: frank@solensky.org, kris@FreeBSD.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: VAIO Laptop - Fatal trap 19 on boot X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 26 May 2008 23:17:43 -0000 I have a Sony VAIO laptop, model number VGN-FZ260E. I was trying to boot the FreeBSD 7.0 amd64 bootonly install disk in it today and I kept getting a "fatal trap 19" error. Part of the output on the screen says: "RAM parity error, likely hardware failure" ...but I can't find any problems with it using memtest86, and other OSes run fine. It looks like this issue has come up on this list before (see URL below), but it doesn't look like it was ever resolved. The output I get is almost exactly the same as this: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=2567598+2571045+/usr/local/www/db/text/2008/freebsd-questions/20080323.freebsd-questions I also found a few similar reports from other users on the web: http://www.fug.com.br/historico/html/freebsd/2008-05/msg00208.html http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2007-December/039355.html I realize the OS is telling me it's a hardware failure, and maybe the errors from the above links were caused by hardware failure as well. But what bugs me is that nothing else seems to have any problem with my hardware. Is there a better tool (other than memtest86) that I can use to diagnose hardware problems? Please make sure to copy me on your responses, I am not subscribed to -questions.