From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 29 14:01:34 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE5D516A4CE for ; Sat, 29 Jan 2005 14:01:34 +0000 (GMT) Received: from ptb-relay01.plus.net (ptb-relay01.plus.net [212.159.14.212]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4FD2F43D4C for ; Sat, 29 Jan 2005 14:01:34 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ian@codepad.net) Received: from [80.229.159.44] (helo=[192.168.0.4]) by ptb-relay01.plus.net with esmtp (Exim) id 1CutAL-000J8D-2s for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 29 Jan 2005 14:01:33 +0000 From: Xian To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2005 14:01:32 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.7 References: <200501291315.54293.ian@codepad.net> In-Reply-To: <200501291315.54293.ian@codepad.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200501291401.32055.ian@codepad.net> Subject: Re: panic on boot X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2005 14:01:34 -0000 On Saturday 29 January 2005 13:15, Xian wrote: > I woke up this morning to find that my computer had rebooted and panicked > as soon as the kernel had started to run. it said: > > The rights of the University... > panic: vm_page_insert: alredy inserted > uptime: 0s > > in bright white on the screen. All I could do was switch it off and on and > it just did it again. Help: how do I fix it? It was running 4.9R. > This is my home web server that I use quite a lot from college. It is > extremely old - its a P90. > > Thank God for getting me to play around with taking backups 2 days ago. OK a little more research with some 5.3 install floppies. They can't boot either because init dies due to a maloc error. The BIOS only finds a bit more than 900,000KB of memory. I used to have 128MB in 4 sticks of 32MB. This looks like one of the sticks has died to me. Anyone else have any ideas? -- /Xian "In C we had to code our own bugs. In C++ we can inherit them" unknown author