Date: Thu, 14 Aug 1997 18:12:21 -0400 From: "Paul F. Wells" <paul@wellserv.com> To: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Cc: ksmm@cybercom.net (The Classiest Man Alive), freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 2.2.2-RELEASE is driving me up the bloody wall!!!!! Message-ID: <28333.871596741@wellserv.com> In-Reply-To: <199708141458.AAA20795@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> References: <199708141458.AAA20795@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
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On 15 August 1997 at 0:28, Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> wrote:
> The Classiest Man Alive stands accused of saying:
> > At 12:38 PM 8/14/97 +0930, Michael Smith wrote:
> > >rdkeys@csemail.cropsci.ncsu.edu stands accused of saying:
> > >> I have had perfect success getting the 3.0 snaps going and the 2.1.7.1
> > >> going on various machines, but 2.2.2 is driving me up the wall!!!!
> > >>
> > >> What gives......?
> > >
> > >Do you have 48M of memory, by any chance?
> >
> > I just had a failed 2.2.2-RELEASE installation last night and I *do* have
> > 48M of RAM? Do you know something? Spill it, man!
>
> There is a bizarre bug in the 2.2.2-RELEASE kernel that causes a fatal
> trap if and only if you have 48M of memory. If you have 32, 40, 56,
> 64M or anything else, it works fine, but 48M is fatal.
>
> You can either remove some memory for the install, or (preferably)
> install a later snapshot of the 2.2-STABLE tree from releng22.freebsd.org
>
dmesg sez:
FreeBSD 2.2.2-RELEASE #0: Wed Aug 13 02:43:59 EDT 1997
root@sinister.wellserv.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/PRESARIOF
CPU: Pentium (100.23-MHz 586-class CPU)
Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0x525 Stepping=5
Features=0x1bf<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,MCE,CX8>
real memory = 50331648 (49152K bytes)
avail memory = 46452736 (45364K bytes)
Probing for devices on PCI bus 0:
Let's see: 49152 /1024 = 48. This bug must have crept in after the CD
was burned.
--
Paul F. Wells <paul@wellserv.com>
627 Heather Drive
Lithia Springs, GA 30122 +1 770 941 5810
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