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Date:      Tue, 15 Jun 2004 14:41:53 -0400
From:      Aaron Peterson <aaron@alpete.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Can't boot install cd (Compaq DL380)
Message-ID:  <1087324912.84043.62.camel@main>
In-Reply-To: <1087308077.84043.47.camel@main>
References:  <1087308077.84043.47.camel@main>

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On Tue, 2004-06-15 at 10:01, Aaron Peterson wrote:
> hah, had to transcribe this whole thing with pen and paper since I
> couldn't think of any other way to copy it.  I put the install cd in for
> FreeBSD 4.10, turn on the server, hit [Enter] to boot immediately
> instead of going to command prompt.  in the Kernel Configuration menu, I
> just skip and boot the default kernel.  It finds devices that scroll
> accross the screen, network cards:
>=20
> NMI ISA a0, EISA ff
> RAM parity error, likely hardware failure
>=20
> Fatal Trap 19: non-maskable interrupt while in kernel mode
> instruction pointer	=3D 0x8:0xc02f56a6
> stack pointer		=3D 0x10:0xc084bf20
> frame pointer		=3D 0x10:0xc084bf34
> code segment		=3D base 0x0, limit 0xfffff, type 0x16
> 			=3D DPL 0, pres 1, def32 1, gran 1
> processor eflags	=3D interrupt enabled, IOPL =3D 0
> current process		=3D 0 (swapper)
> interrupt mask		=3D net tty bio cam
> trap number		=3D 19
> panic: non-maskable interrupt trap
> Uptime: 0s
>=20
> This is a Compaq DL380 server (dual P3 733s and ECC RAM).  I've swapped
> out each memory module with a known good memory module one by one, and
> every configuration still generates this error.  OpenBSD and Redhat seem
> to run just fine on this machine too.  What can I do?  I don't
> understand what is generating this error exactly so I don't know where
> to start.
>=20
> The install cd for FreeBSD 4.9 generated the same error.  The install cd
> for 5.1 hangs without error messages.  if it is important for me to give
> you more information about that I will go test it again and write down
> the screen contents.  What i really want is 4.10 though.
>=20
> Aaron

Turns out, it didn't like that I had put a NIC in the bottom PCI slot on
the riser card.  I moved it up a slot, and presto worko.  How might I
have known the problem was related to the PCI NIC from the kernel output
above?
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Aaron Peterson <aaron@alpete.com>

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