Date: Fri, 8 Mar 1996 11:01:45 -0800 (PST) From: Jake Hamby <jehamby@lightside.com> To: current@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com Subject: 3/3 SNAP needs bounce buffers? Message-ID: <Pine.AUX.3.91.960308105405.15484A-100000@covina.lightside.com>
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I haven't received any response to my complaint that the 3/3 SNAP boot floppy crashes on my system with: panic: unwire: page not in pmap Syncing disks... I have 24MB of RAM and a combination of IDE and SCSI (Adaptec 2842 VLB). It appears that Jordan is not using the GENERIC kernel exactly (he's including ATAPI [which doesn't work for me] and there is no 15-second "Waiting for SCSI devices to settle" delay) so I'm wondering if you're including BOUNCE_BUFFERS too? I'm using the regular boot.flp not the 4MB version. I don't think my VLB card needs bounce buffers, but I do have 24MB of RAM, and have no idea why it crashes like this before sysinstall even starts! Help? In other news, I tried the 3/3 SNAP on a different machine (8MB RAM, AMI BIOS, 3 IDE drives, NE2000 Ethernet) that we threw together from crap parts. Anyway the install boots fine (wah!) but when we were playing with the emergency holographic shell, sh core dumped several times during the install (we saw sh.core in /, since the shell is not chroot'ed to /mnt) or at least the first 8k of the core dump before the MFS filesystem filled up. Also, when trying to fetch DES, it couldn't find the distribution, failed, and core dumped with a message like "Can't continue, I'm dead..." Please, will there be another snap this weekend (hopefully with more VM patches)? Thanks!!! ---Jake
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