From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 13 19:23:22 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id TAA28412 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 13 Jun 1996 19:23:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mailhub.aros.net (mailhub.aros.net [205.164.111.17]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id TAA28402 for ; Thu, 13 Jun 1996 19:23:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from terra.aros.net (terra.aros.net [205.164.111.10]) by mailhub.aros.net (8.7.5/Unknown) with ESMTP id VAA17099 for ; Thu, 13 Jun 1996 21:02:09 -0600 (MDT) Received: (from angio@localhost) by terra.aros.net (8.7.5/8.6.12) id UAA21867 for questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 13 Jun 1996 20:23:15 -0600 From: Dave Andersen Message-Id: <199606140223.UAA21867@terra.aros.net> Subject: -current SNAP installation panics To: questions@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 13 Jun 1996 20:23:15 -0600 (MDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25 PGP2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk My $.02 says that I have a hardware problem, most likely dead memory, but I'm wondering if anyone has a more precise idea before I start strangling my supplier and asking for a replacement? various -current SNAPS (yesterday's, the day before, 0501) panic midway through installing /bin. With the bios defaults, I get a write error (wrote -1 blocks of 1427). It asks if I want to re-fetch; I do, it panics, and tries to sync the disks until it gives up and reboots. With everything (all caches, PCI burst, onboard IDE, onboard .. well, everything except FD controller) disabled, it gets about 50% through, and then kernel panics. The stack & frame pointers are at different locations depending on bios settings. It still panics with both the onboard and external caches disabled. It's a P133, triton chipset/award bios, 2 XP3125 quantum grand-prix (oops) 2gb HDs, 32 megs of 60-ns non-edo ram, adaptec 2940W controller, off-brand PCI video card. Clues? Memory? -Dave Andersen -- angio@aros.net Complete virtual hosting and business-oriented system administration Internet services. (WWW, FTP, email) http://www.aros.net/ http://www.aros.net/about/virtual "There are only two industries that refer to their customers as 'users'."