From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 15 07:31:19 2004 Return-Path: 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 E345C16A4CE; Fri, 15 Oct 2004 07:31:19 +0000 (GMT) Received: from gvr.gvr.org (gvr-gw.gvr.org [80.126.103.228]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 98DE443D5A; Fri, 15 Oct 2004 07:31:19 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from guido@gvr.org) Received: by gvr.gvr.org (Postfix, from userid 657) id 00B904F; Fri, 15 Oct 2004 09:31:18 +0200 (CEST) Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2004 09:31:18 +0200 From: Guido van Rooij To: Robert Watson Message-ID: <20041015073118.GA19660@gvr.gvr.org> References: <20041013214911.GD986@green.homeunix.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 5.3-BETA7 install cd: kernel trap 12 with interrupts disabled X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2004 07:31:20 -0000 It turns out this was a memory problem. Refitting the dimms was all that was needed to 'solve' the issue. The weird thing is that 1. The BIOS had memtesting enabled and did not complain 2. W2K seemed to install ok (though I never let it hit the disk) 3. FBSD would repeatedly crash at exactly the same spot. I am beginning to wonder if we should have a boot option that enables a thorough memtest from within the kernel...(e.g. boot -m). -Guido