kernel panic at boot on any 6.x OS

[Kip Macy]

It looks like it may be loading an out of sync kernel module. Cleaning
out /boot/modules might help.

                -Kip

On 2/26/07, Joe Auty <joe at netmusician.org> wrote:
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> Well,
>
> My system does boot off of disc 1 of the FreeBSD 6.2 CD. However,
> even when copying the /boot directory from the CD to my machine, it
> still produces the same kernel panic, even when starting in safe
> mode. I've run a memtest, and it checked out fine.
>
> There must be something in my user space or world that it barfs on. I
> guess I will try a clean install and rebuild at some point...
>
> If you have any other ideas, I'm all ears!
>
> Here is my error message again (with verbose logging enabled,
> although that has no effect on this output):
>
>
> > WARNING: Device driver "
> >
> > Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode
> > fault virtual address = 0x400000
> > fault code = supervisor read, page not present
> > instruction pointer = 0x20:0xc06d4614
> > stack pointer = 0x28:0xf015491c
> > frame pointer = 0x28:0xf015491c
> > code segment = base 0x0, limit 0xffffff, type 0x1b
> >            = DPL 0, pres 1, def32 1, gran 1
> > processor eflags = interupt enabled, resume, IOPL = 0
> > current process = 898 (kldload)
> > trap number = 12
> > panic: page fault
> > uptime: 36s
> > cannot dump. No dump device defined
> > automatic reboot in 15 seconds
>
>
> Thanks again for your time!
>
>
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> Joe Auty
> NetMusician: web publishing software for musicians
> http://www.netmusician.org
> joe at netmusician.org
>
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