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Date:      Thu, 6 Dec 2001 08:09:55 +0000
From:      Thomas Hurst <tom.hurst@clara.net>
To:        stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Page Faults
Message-ID:  <20011206080955.GH49265@sploo.aagh.net>
In-Reply-To: <20011206045010.13965.qmail@web11603.mail.yahoo.com>
References:  <20011206045010.13965.qmail@web11603.mail.yahoo.com>

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* Holtor (holtor@yahoo.com) wrote:

> I've put together a computer here and am trying to install the latest
> FreeBSD 4.4-RELEASE on it.
>
> The problem is after I go to custom setup, the system crashes due to a
> page fault. Sometimes it lets me in and then crashes after it writes
> the filesystem data to the hard drive.

Tried swapping the memory around?  In my experience unhandled pagefaults
are a common sign of borked memory.

You might also put the drives in PIO mode if they seem related to disk
activity.

-- 
Thomas 'Freaky' Hurst  -  freaky@aagh.net  -  http://www.aagh.net/

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