Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2002 12:17:53 +0100 From: Daniel Bye <dan@slightlystrange.org> To: FBSD-Q <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Toshiba Satellite 1670CDS + FREEBSD Woes Message-ID: <20020430111753.GB28420@icarus.slightlystrange.org> In-Reply-To: <20020430084749.GQ66193@ns2.wananchi.com> References: <20020430084749.GQ66193@ns2.wananchi.com>
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On Tue, Apr 30, 2002 at 11:47:50AM +0300, Odhiambo Washington wrote: > hiya gang, > > I am having a problem with a Toshiba laptop here and I hope one of you can help > in advising. > > This laptop has given me enough issues and refused to run Winblows - it just hangs > or complains about himem.sys, VxD errors (whetever those are). > > So I decided to install FreeBSD from CD. This is a 4.4-RELEASE CD. Three times > it panicked while loading the kernel and rebooted immediately/spontaneously. Now I > have an error on the screen when booting from 4.4 CD: > > > Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode > fault virtual address = 0x3a > fault code = supervisor write, page not present > instruction pointer = 0x8 :0xc02a1eef > stack pointer = 0x10 :0xc06b8dec > frame pointer = 0x10 :0xc06b8e8c > code segment = base 0x0, limit 0xfffff, type 0x1b > = DPL 0, pres 1, def32 1, gran 1 > processor eflags = interrupt enabled, resume, IOPL - 0 > current process = Idle > interrupt mask = net tty bio cam > trap number = 12 > panic: page fault > Uptime: 0s > > > Could this be a device problem? Memory?? > > > Thanks in advance > Hi Wash, It does indeed look as if some of the chips on the RAM are fried. himem.sys is a terminate and stay resident driver that allows MSDOS to address memory above the base 1MB it can see natively without it. This is also called extended memory by DOSers. A vxd is a virtual device driver which runs in privileged mode (on processor ring-0). As it runs on ring-0, it has full access to all attached hardware. They are started at OS startup, or can be loaded dynamically into a running "kernel". Anyhoo, this is a FreeBSD, not an MS-DOS list, so I'll stop right about now! Dan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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