Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 03:36:38 -0800 From: "Ronald F. Guilmette" <rfg@monkeys.com> To: Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Help! "Fatal trap 1: privledged instruction trap" while inst Message-ID: <43362.976793798@monkeys.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of Thu, 14 Dec 2000 03:22:53 -0800. <200012141122.eBEBMr901509@mass.osd.bsdi.com>
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In message <200012141122.eBEBMr901509@mass.osd.bsdi.com>, you wrote: >> >> >Also, the VESA code isn't in GENERIC, says he just looking. >> > >> >I'm sorry; I don't have any other great ideas. Try a new video card. 8) >> >> OK. I went today and bought a new ATI Xpert 98 video card. >> >> I installed it into the system in question. >> >> I tried to install FreeBSD again. >> >> Still no-go. I am getting EXACTLY the same error as before at EXACTLY >> the same point in the process. > >Ok, so it's not the VESA BIOS. 8) I'm a little puzzled as to what the >SCSI controller BIOS is doing being called at this point in time (the only >other candidate). > >> Based on the evidence, I am inclined to say that there is a definite bug >> in the FreeBSD 4.1.1 generic kernel. I mean hay! FreeBSD 3.3 boots up >> fine on the exact same hardware. > >No, the bug is in the BIOS code. We're just tripping over it. I don't think so. I filed a detailed PR on this whole problem, and someone responded to that already saying that he's pretty sure that the problem is fixed (again) in FreeBSD 4.2. The AHA-1542CP card is perfectly OK... It's just that FreeBSD 4.1 was expecting a little to much from it. I hope and believe that is rectified in 4.2. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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