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Date:      Sat, 11 Nov 2006 13:26:08 -0800
From:      Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Another Hardware Issue
Message-ID:  <45563FF0.4000008@u.washington.edu>
In-Reply-To: <7D505A6C-DEEB-4EF1-AF15-96DB89E909CD@lafn.org>
References:  <7D505A6C-DEEB-4EF1-AF15-96DB89E909CD@lafn.org>

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Doug Hardie wrote:
> I have another machine which will not boot the first time after a power
> on.  It gives the following messages:
> 
> Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad0s1a
> panic: vm_fault: fault on nofault entry, addr: c6303000
> 
> syncing disks... 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
> giving up on 1 buffers
> Uptime: 16s
> 
> However, if after that you hit any key on the console or the reset
> button on the front panel it will boot and run just fine.  This is
> running FreeBSD 4.6.2-RELEASE-p13.  It has run fine for years until this
> started.  There is no point to updating it as it has no users.  It has
> no running services.  It only sends a couple of status emails daily and
> does frequent rcp's to my production servers.  Are we about to lose the
> motherboard?

Memtest86+ / your vendor's diags can help you determine whether or not
there is an issue.
- -Garrett
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