From owner-freebsd-hackers  Fri Feb  3 11:27:55 1995
Return-Path: hackers-owner
Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id LAA18702 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 3 Feb 1995 11:27:55 -0800
Received: from godzilla.zeta.org.au (godzilla.zeta.org.au [203.2.228.34]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with ESMTP id LAA18696 for <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org>; Fri, 3 Feb 1995 11:27:45 -0800
Received: (from bde@localhost) by godzilla.zeta.org.au (8.6.9/8.6.9) id GAA11140; Sat, 4 Feb 1995 06:27:08 +1100
Date: Sat, 4 Feb 1995 06:27:08 +1100
From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
Message-Id: <199502031927.GAA11140@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org, wpaul@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu
Subject: Re: Somebody broke something somewhere
Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org
Precedence: bulk

>Congratulations: in spite of all my hard work to get FreeBSD to boot
>with a serial console, somebody has managed to goof it all up:

>...
>sc0: VGA color <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x0>


>Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode
>fault virtual address   = 0xc

I fixed this a while ago but the fix hasn't filtered into syscons yet.

Bruce

*** syscons.c~	Thu Feb  2 20:34:38 1995
--- syscons.c	Thu Feb  2 20:41:10 1995
***************
*** 419,423 ****
  scattach(struct isa_device *dev)
  {
! 	scr_stat *scp = console[0];
  
  	scinit();
--- 419,423 ----
  scattach(struct isa_device *dev)
  {
! 	scr_stat *scp;
  
  	scinit();
***************
*** 437,440 ****
--- 437,441 ----
  			MAXCONS, configuration);
  
+ 	scp = console[0];
  	scp->scr_buf = (u_short *)malloc(scp->xsize*scp->ysize*sizeof(u_short),
  					 M_DEVBUF, M_NOWAIT);