Date: Wed, 10 Jul 1996 07:05:05 -0700 From: David Greenman <davidg@root.com> To: Ryan Cutter <rcutter@ctgusa.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD boot problem Message-ID: <199607101405.HAA03922@root.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 10 Jul 1996 09:33:04 EDT." <1.5.4.32.19960710133304.008c5c24@ctgusa.com>
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> I've got a PC at home that is running Windows on one partion (@700 >Megs) and FreeBSD on the other (@400 Megs). Just a few days ago, I >installed Windows NT to take the place of Windows 3.1. While I had 3.1, >FreeBSD worked fine, but now with NT, it can't boot up. When I try to boot >BSD, the ususal script goes by, but about 20 seconds into it, I get the >following error just after it says "Automatic Reboot in progress": > > Fatal Trap 12:page fault while in kernel mode > > fault virtual address =0x24 > fault code =supervisor read, page not present > > There is some more info about the instruction pointer, code >segement, etc.. >I've heard that BSD has trouble running when a 32-bit OS is in the DOS >partition. I've got 16 Megs of RAM, so I don't think it's a memory problem, >but right now I'm lost. >Any suggestions? Are you mounting msdosfs filesystems at startup? Don't... Have you perhaps updated your kernel sources but neglected to update the kernel LKMs in /usr/src/lkm/* ? An out of date filesystem LKM can cause panics and/or serious filesystem damage if you don't have the code statically compiled into the kernel. -DG David Greenman Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project
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