From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Jan 28 12:19:26 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id MAA28762 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 28 Jan 1996 12:19:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from husky.cslab.vt.edu (jaitken@husky.cs.vt.edu [128.173.41.87]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA28756 for ; Sun, 28 Jan 1996 12:19:23 -0800 (PST) Received: (jaitken@localhost) by husky.cslab.vt.edu (8.6.12/8.6.4) id PAA23783 for hackers@freebsd.org; Sun, 28 Jan 1996 15:19:18 -0500 From: Jeff Aitken Message-Id: <199601282019.PAA23783@husky.cslab.vt.edu> Subject: what does this mean To: hackers@freebsd.org Date: Sun, 28 Jan 1996 15:19:17 -0500 (EST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk We've got a student here who has installed FreeBSD with no problem, but when he reboots the machine, he gets the following error: --snip-- (immediately after the 'Regents of University of California' message) Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode fault virtual address = 0xf025e fault code = supervisor read, page not present instruction pointer = 0x8: 0xf0198002 code segment = base 0x0 limit 0xfffff, type 0x1b = DPL 0, pres 1, def32 1, gran 1 processor eflags = resume, IOPL = 0 current process = 0 () interrupt mask = net tty bio panic: page fault hit reset please --snip-- Can anyone shed some light on this? I'm afraid I can't make any sense of the error. Please cc me with the response as I'm not currently subscribed to freebsd-hackers. Thanks! -- Jeff Aitken Lab Manager jaitken@cs.vt.edu