Page fault in kernel mode, 6.0-RELEASE

[Guido Van Hoecke]

Kris Kennaway <kris at obsecurity.org> writes:

> On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 11:48:15PM +0100, Guido Van Hoecke wrote:
>> I am fairly new at FreeBSD. I installed a 'beastie' server with 
>> 
>> FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE #0: Thu Nov  3 09:36:13 UTC 2005
>>     root at x64.samsco.home:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC
>> 
>> but it traps immediately after the boot menu with following output
>> immediately after the boot menu:
>> 
>> /boot/kernel/acpi.ko text=0x40c2c data=0x2160+0x1090 \
>> syms=[0x4+0x7810+0x4+0xa292]
>> 
>> Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode
>> fault virtual address   = 0x8
>> fault code              = supervisor read, page not present
>> instruction pointer     = 0x20:0xc079abb9
>> stack pointer           = 0x28:0xc0c20d4c
>> frame pointer           = 0x28:0xc0c20d58
>> 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 ()
>> trap number             = 12
>> panic: page fault
>> Uptime: 1s
>> 
>> Note that the /boot/kernel/acpi.ko line is absent if I boot with acpi
>> disabled (menu option 2). But the trap info is not affected by slecting
>> that boot option.
>
> Are you using other modules (e.g. nvidia driver)?

No Kris, this is just when booting from the generic release cd's. I
had an old Hercules 3d Prophet card and just used that, without
loading anything special.
>
> Kris