Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2005 23:22:04 +0000 From: Xian <ian@codepad.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: panic on boot Message-ID: <200501292322.04200.ian@codepad.net> In-Reply-To: <200501290841.54557.m.hauber@mchsi.com> References: <200501291315.54293.ian@codepad.net> <200501290841.54557.m.hauber@mchsi.com>
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On Saturday 29 January 2005 13:41, Mike Hauber wrote: > On Saturday 29 January 2005 08:15 am, Xian wrote: > > I woke up this morning to find that my computer had rebooted > > and panicked as soon as the kernel had started to run. it said: > > > > The rights of the University... > > panic: vm_page_insert: alredy inserted > > uptime: 0s > > > > in bright white on the screen. All I could do was switch it off > > and on and it just did it again. Help: how do I fix it? It was > > running 4.9R. This is my home web server that I use quite a lot > > from college. It is extremely old - its a P90. > > > > Thank God for getting me to play around with taking backups 2 > > days ago. > > I've seen this on various lists before, and I _think_ the general > consensus was to first check the RAM by taking all the modules > out but one and then adding them back until the panic returns. > > Hope that helps > > Mike Thanks Mike, I found the bad stick of ram, unfortunately this computer has a strange obsession about sticks of ram being in pairs!? So I can't use the other good stick of 32MB (There were 2 other good stick of 32MB). Gone from 128MB to 64 - Ouch! I have found another 2 sticks of 16MB in my spars box so that makes 96MB not too bad I suppose. -- /Xian "I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work" Thomas Edison
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