From owner-freebsd-bugs Sun May 21 10:57:39 1995 Return-Path: bugs-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id KAA24631 for bugs-outgoing; Sun, 21 May 1995 10:57:39 -0700 Received: from Root.COM (implode.Root.COM [198.145.90.1]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id KAA24625 for ; Sun, 21 May 1995 10:57:37 -0700 Received: from corbin.Root.COM (corbin.Root.COM [198.145.90.18]) by Root.COM (8.6.8/8.6.5) with ESMTP id LAA22523; Sun, 21 May 1995 11:00:36 -0700 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by corbin.Root.COM (8.6.11/8.6.5) with SMTP id KAA00140; Sun, 21 May 1995 10:57:37 -0700 Message-Id: <199505211757.KAA00140@corbin.Root.COM> To: Sean Eric Fagan cc: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org, tege@cygnus.com Subject: Re: MAJOR problem with FreeBSD-2.0-RELEASE In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 21 May 95 10:52:04 PDT." <199505211752.KAA12689@kithrup.com> From: David Greenman Reply-To: davidg@Root.COM Date: Sun, 21 May 1995 10:57:36 -0700 Sender: bugs-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >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