Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 03:22:53 -0800 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: "Ronald F. Guilmette" <rfg@monkeys.com> Cc: Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG>, John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Help! "Fatal trap 1: privledged instruction trap" while inst Message-ID: <200012141122.eBEBMr901509@mass.osd.bsdi.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 13 Dec 2000 14:50:41 PST." <40355.976747841@monkeys.com>
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> >Also, the VESA code isn't in GENERIC, says he just looking.
> >
> >I'm sorry; I don't have any other great ideas. Try a new video card. 8)
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> OK. I went today and bought a new ATI Xpert 98 video card.
>
> I installed it into the system in question.
>
> I tried to install FreeBSD again.
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> Still no-go. I am getting EXACTLY the same error as before at EXACTLY
> the same point in the process.
Ok, so it's not the VESA BIOS. 8) I'm a little puzzled as to what the
SCSI controller BIOS is doing being called at this point in time (the only
other candidate).
> Based on the evidence, I am inclined to say that there is a definite bug
> in the FreeBSD 4.1.1 generic kernel. I mean hay! FreeBSD 3.3 boots up
> fine on the exact same hardware.
No, the bug is in the BIOS code. We're just tripping over it.
> Assuming that it is one, where should I turn for further assistance?
Get a BIOS update for the controller. I know that people are using 154x
-family controllers with FreeBSD-4.x systems (because they get upset when
things get broken elsewhere 8).
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