Date: Fri, 14 Apr 1995 17:31:37 -0700 (PDT) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> To: cmf@ins.infonet.net (Carl M. Fongheiser) Cc: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Interesting (and odd) effect in -current Message-ID: <199504150031.RAA02037@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> In-Reply-To: <199504142209.RAA00277@kf0yn.ampr.org> from "Carl M. Fongheiser" at Apr 14, 95 05:10:08 pm
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> Thanks to hardware trouble, I haven't had a chance to boot a reasonably
> current -current kernel until a few days ago. In particular, this is
> the first kernel that didn't have the memory test in it. The first time
> I booted it (warm boot), it booted fine. I ran with it for a couple days.
> Wednesday night, we had a power failure, and I discovered that the thing
> wouldn't cold boot with that kernel. It gets all the way through the
> autoboot, but it trapped when it started up a getty due to a kernel reference
> to address 0. It failed again on the reboot. My old kernel (from late Jan.)
> booted fine. A perusal of the crash dump showed the trap happened inside
> of scopen(). Yesterday, I supped again, and built another kernel. This
> one falls over the same way, but slightly earlier in stty. This time it
> looks like it happened in spec_ioctl().
>
> Just to summarize, my late January kernel runs flawlessly, but my 2 most
> recent kernels sometimes fall over late in the boot sequence. I don't know
> if this could be uncovering some flakiness in my hardware, or if there's
> something that isn't getting initialized properly. My hardware configuration:
>
> PCI/I-486SP3G motherboard, 256k L2 cache, 8M main memory.
^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Make sure your L2 cache is wet to write through mode on that motherboard,
also disable GAT in the chipset BIOS setup screen.
> 2 Maxtor 7345AT drives
> 1 Quantum LT730S drive
> STB 4COM (4-port serial card)
> 3COM 3C503 ethernet card
> #9 GXE64 PCI video card
>
> Any help would be appreciated, and I'd be happy to supply further details
> on request.
>
> Carl Fongheiser
> cmf@ins.infonet.net
>
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Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com
Accurate Automation Company Custom computers for FreeBSD
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