From owner-freebsd-current Fri Nov 8 16:15:41 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1188E37B401 for ; Fri, 8 Nov 2002 16:15:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from swan.mail.pas.earthlink.net (swan.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.123]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F7F143E3B for ; Fri, 8 Nov 2002 16:15:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert2@mindspring.com) Received: from pool0296.cvx40-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([216.244.43.41] helo=mindspring.com) by swan.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 18AJHY-0002aO-00; Fri, 08 Nov 2002 16:15:24 -0800 Message-ID: <3DCC534E.118190CC@mindspring.com> Date: Fri, 08 Nov 2002 16:14:06 -0800 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David Schultz Cc: Sidcarter , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Kernel not booting....Immediate crash References: <20021107204113.A3540@prxysrv.in.ibm.com> <20021109000400.GB3138@HAL9000.homeunix.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG David Schultz wrote: > Thus spake Sidcarter : > > Fatal trap 12: page fault while in vm86 mode > > fault virtual address = 0x9fdc8 > ^^^^^^^ > That's a region of memory right before the 640K mark, > and your BIOS is trying to use it. This used to work, > but revision 1.544 of src/sys/i386/i386/machdep.c moved > the code that mapped in those pages until *after* they > need to be used. I (unsuccessfully) petitioned the > committer who made the change to revert it, so for now > you'll have to manually remove it, being careful not to > step on the changes introduced in revisions 1.545 through > 1.547. Or look in the -current archives; Mitsuru IWASAKI posted a patch yesterday at 11:29 PM. http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=1206362+0+current/freebsd-current -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message