5.1 on an A31p
Ben Laurie
ben at algroup.co.uk
Sun Aug 3 04:28:56 PDT 2003
Jesse Guardiani wrote:
> Ben Laurie wrote:
>
>
>>So, after a long pause, I'm trying to get 5.x working on my IBM A31p.
>>I've made a boot CD from the 5.1 ISO images, vintage a week or so ago.
>>When I boot (in any mode, ACPI on or off, or Safe), it dies immediately
>>after discovering firewire:
>>
>>firewire0: <IEEE1394(FireWire) bus> on fwohci0
>>
>>
>>
>>Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode
>>fault virtual address = 0x2c
>>fault code = supervisor read, page not present
>>instruction pointer = 0x8:0xc02e5a50
>>stack pointer = 0x10:0xc0ae39b0
>>frame pointer = 0x10:0xc0ae39b4
>>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 = 0 (swapper)
>>trap number = 12
>>panic: page fault
>>
>>Now what?
>
>
> I had the same problem on an IBM A30p with 5.1. Do this
> at the boot loader prompt:
>
> set hw.pci.allow_unsupported_io_range=1
>
> That should take care of it. You'll need to place the part after
> 'set' in your /boot/device.hints file after you complete the install,
> otherwise your kernel will continue to fail at boot.
That did the trick, thanks.
Cheers,
Ben.
>
> HTH.
>
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