From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Nov 11 12:51:45 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id MAA01296 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 11 Nov 1995 12:51:45 -0800 Received: from sh1.ro.com (mprevost@sh1.ro.com [205.216.92.5]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id MAA01291 for ; Sat, 11 Nov 1995 12:51:43 -0800 Received: (from mprevost@localhost) by sh1.ro.com (8.6.9/8.6.9) id PAA12598; Sat, 11 Nov 1995 15:57:58 -0600 Date: Sat, 11 Nov 1995 15:57:58 -0600 From: "Mike R. Prevost" Subject: Hang on ISA probing and SIG_BUS problems... (fwd) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Hi. I'm running FreeBSD-stable (2.1.0) on a Amd486/DX4-100 ISA/PCI machine with 2940 PCI-SCSI controller and cheapo ISA VGA card. My problem is that it always (well ALMOST always) hangs when it probes the ISA bus while booting. It never displays any other output other than the message telling me it's probing. One weird thing is that I can enter -v at the boot prompt and it works fine. I have recompiled the kernel with just the devices I have. I used to have problems with processes dying with signal 11, but that turned out to be bad RAM which has been replaced with tested RAM (according to the FAQ). However I just experiences some 'random' reboots due to kernel pageing faults. Just after that, all my shells died of signal 10's (SIG_BUS). I'm starting to wonder if I'm having mother board problems. Actually, I'm still having some signal 11 problems. In your experience, are these problems symptomatic of motherboard problems? Thanks alot for your contributions to free unixdom. --- Mike R. Prevost mprevost@ro.com