FreeBSD 6.0-RC1 available

[Paul Dekkers]

Hi,

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.