Date: Sun, 21 May 1995 10:57:36 -0700 From: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM> To: Sean Eric Fagan <sef@kithrup.com> Cc: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org, tege@cygnus.com Subject: Re: MAJOR problem with FreeBSD-2.0-RELEASE Message-ID: <199505211757.KAA00140@corbin.Root.COM> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 21 May 95 10:52:04 PDT." <199505211752.KAA12689@kithrup.com>
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>We put together yet another system yesterday. This one had: > > Zappa Pentium/PCI motherboard > Pentium-90 > 32MBytes RAM > BusLogic PCI SCSI controller > Spider Tarantula PCI graphics card > WD8013 ethernet card (ed0 found it, no problem) > >We installed from the CD-ROM. After getting it all up and installed, I >proceeded to play with it a bit -- the first thing I wanted to do was build >a new kernel. So, I did > > cd /usr/src/sys/i386/conf > cp GENERIC TEGE > vi TEGE > >The kernel panic'ed, in vm_bounce. It does this fairly reliably. The owner >of the system also reports that it dies when gcc runs, as well. Try to generate a kernel without options "BOUNCE_BUFFERS". If you can't get the machine to stay up long enough to do this, take out 16MB of memory (this effectively disables bounce buffers). I don't know what the problem is - I haven't seen it here, but then I don't use bounce buffers. -DG
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