From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 13 16:55:54 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from froody.rupture.net (froody.rupture.net [205.252.38.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 39FDA37B698 for ; Tue, 13 Feb 2001 16:55:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (jon@localhost) by froody.rupture.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA14819 for ; Tue, 13 Feb 2001 20:07:02 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jon@rupture.net) Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 20:07:01 -0500 (EST) From: Jon Nathan To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: panic installing on dell poweredge 6450, 4cpu, 4gb Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG hi, i'm trying to install freebsd 4.2-release on a dell poweredge 6450. it has 4 xeon cpus at 700mhz and 4gb of memory. my process is: boot off kern.flp insert mfsroot.flp wait 10 seconds and i get: Fatal trap 12: pagefault in kernel mode fault virtual address = 0xbff11000 fault code = supervisor write, page not present instruction pointer = 0x8:0xc02d3798 stack pointer = 0x10:0xc0671f34 frame pointer = 0x10:0xc0671f3c code segment = base 0x0, limit 0xfffff,type 0x1b = DPL 0, pres 1, def32 1, gran 1 processor eflags = interrupt enabled, resume, IOPL=0 current process = Idle interrupt mask = net tty bio cam trap number = 12 panic: page fault Uptime: 0s if i stop the autoboot of the kernel and do boot -v i get the same fault. prior to that, i get: SMAP type=01 base=00000000 00000220 len = 00000000 00330000 SMAP type=01 base=00000000 00000220 len = 00000000 00330000 SMAP type=01 base=00000000 00000220 len = 00000000 00330000 SMAP type=01 base=00000000 00000220 len = 00000000 00330000 SMAP type=02 base=00000000 00000220 len = 00000000 00330000 SMAP type=02 base=00000000 00000220 len = 00000000 00330000 SMAP type=02 base=00000000 00000220 len = 00000000 00330000 SMAP type=02 base=00000000 00000220 len = 00000000 00330000 i didn't copy all the actual addresses - too tedious. i'm also assuming that there were 4 of the SMAP type=01 because they scrolled off the screen and i couldn't retreive them. i know that 4.2 will run on a 6450 - i have it running on another one. the other one though only has 2 x 550mhz xeons and 1gb of memory. they both have ami megaraid 1600 (dell calls them PERC/2 or soemthing) cards with some disks off them. is it the fact that there are 4 cpus or 4gb of memory? i thought fbsd could handle that. i also made brand new floppies - same result. any ideas? i don't want to have to run linux on this puppy 8-( thanks, -jon -- Jon Nathan jon@rupture.net http://www.rupture.net/~jon/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message