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Date:      Sun, 21 May 1995 10:57:36 -0700
From:      David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM>
To:        Sean Eric Fagan <sef@kithrup.com>
Cc:        freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org, tege@cygnus.com
Subject:   Re: MAJOR problem with FreeBSD-2.0-RELEASE 
Message-ID:  <199505211757.KAA00140@corbin.Root.COM>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 21 May 95 10:52:04 PDT." <199505211752.KAA12689@kithrup.com> 

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>We put together yet another system yesterday.  This one had:
>
>	Zappa Pentium/PCI motherboard
>	Pentium-90
>	32MBytes RAM
>	BusLogic PCI SCSI controller
>	Spider Tarantula PCI graphics card
>	WD8013 ethernet card (ed0 found it, no problem)
>
>We installed from the CD-ROM.  After getting it all up and installed, I
>proceeded to play with it a bit -- the first thing I wanted to do was build
>a new kernel.  So, I did
>
>	cd /usr/src/sys/i386/conf
>	cp GENERIC TEGE
>	vi TEGE
>
>The kernel panic'ed, in vm_bounce.  It does this fairly reliably.  The owner
>of the system also reports that it dies when gcc runs, as well.

   Try to generate a kernel without options "BOUNCE_BUFFERS". If you can't get
the machine to stay up long enough to do this, take out 16MB of memory (this
effectively disables bounce buffers).
   I don't know what the problem is - I haven't seen it here, but then I don't
use bounce buffers.

-DG



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