Re: FreeBSD 6.0-RC1 available

From: Paul Dekkers <Paul.Dekkers_at_surfnet.nl>
Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 23:46:10 +0200
Scott,

Scott Long wrote:

> Christopher Kelley wrote:
>
>> Paul Dekkers wrote:
>>
>>> Christopher Kelley wrote:
>>>
>>>> I am having a problem installing 6-RC1, that I am wondering if this 
>>>> will also fix.  It starts to copy from the CD drive, then pretty 
>>>> quickly I get;
>>>>
>>>>    panic: vm_fault: fault on nofault entry, addr: c641e000
>>>>    Uptime: 1m44s
>>>>    Cannot dump. No dump device defined.
>>>>    Automatic reboot in 15 seconds - press a key on the console to 
>>>> abort.
>>>>
>>>> This is a straight install, I'm not running under VMWare (and I 
>>>> haven't actually a clue what QEMU is), but I don't know if this is 
>>>> something that might be related.  The addr is different each time.
>>>>
>>>> This is my "beater" machine, an old P233/mmx with only 96megs, but 
>>>> I've successfully installed various 5.x versions, windows, etc on 
>>>> this machine.  I've even in the past successfully cvsup'd from 5.4 
>>>> to 6, just to see if it would work.
>>>
>>> FWIW, I just experienced the same with a straight install on a Dell 
>>> PE 1300, a PIII-500.
>>> It was half way through copying the "bin" set.
>>>
>>> Paul
>>>
>>> BTW, Probably unrelated: I had to disable apic in order to boot (I'm 
>>> on the latest BIOS, A12) and ACPI disabled itself.
>>
>> Heh, ever get a new idea right after you press "enter" to send a 
>> message?  I *DID* get it to work, by going into the BIOS and 
>> disabling UDMA access for both master and slave on the secondary IDE 
>> controller (the CDROM is on the secondary master, nothing on the 
>> secondary slave).  I left the UDMA on for the primary IDE controller 
>> (where the hard drive is).
>>
>> So that's weird.  Because I didn't have do that to install 5.x or 
>> Windows 98.  I guess it won't affect anything, I don't think CDROMs 
>> are UDMA anyways.
>>
>> Christopher
>
> There is a candidate fix for all of these 'panic while copying files off
> the CD' problems.  I've tested it successfully under Qemu since it
> happens most often there and in VMWare, but there is no reason why it
> shouldn't also happen on real hardware.  So, for those with some to
> test, please go to ftp://ftp.freebs.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots and
> download the ISO there and install it.  Then let me know ASAP whether
> it helps or not.

It helps; the 13 October snapshot installs just fine.

Paul

P.S. Unlike Christopher I have no UDMA settings in the BIOS, and 
hw.ata.ata_dma=0 didn't do it for me, so this fix is certainly welcome :-)
Received on Thu Oct 13 2005 - 19:46:13 UTC

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