FreeBSD 6.0-RC1 available
Paul Dekkers
Paul.Dekkers at surfnet.nl
Thu Oct 13 14:46:13 PDT 2005
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 :-)
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