Date: Mon, 26 May 2008 22:25:02 -0400 From: orv <technews@giallarhorn.org> To: Mike <deathjestr@gmail.com> Cc: frank@solensky.org, kris@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: VAIO Laptop - Fatal trap 19 on boot Message-ID: <483B70FE.5040609@giallarhorn.org> In-Reply-To: <44b564930805261552w7cd8116fr7263ad6ce49d718a@mail.gmail.com> References: <44b564930805261552w7cd8116fr7263ad6ce49d718a@mail.gmail.com>
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Mike wrote: > 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. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > Hi Mike, my solution to the problem was to plug a firewire drive in. You can remove the drive after it has been probed. Once i got the o.s installed i built a custom kernel without firewire. hth
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