VAIO Laptop - Fatal trap 19 on boot

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Mike wrote:
> I have a Sony VAIO laptop, model number VGN-FZ260E. I was trying to boot the
> FreeBSD 7.0 amd64 bootonly install disk in it today and I kept getting a "fatal
> trap 19" error. Part of the output on the screen says:
>
> "RAM parity error, likely hardware failure"
>
> ...but I can't find any problems with it using memtest86, and other
> OSes run fine.
>
> It looks like this issue has come up on this list before (see URL below), but it
> doesn't look like it was ever resolved. The output I get is almost
> exactly the same
> as this:
>
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=2567598+2571045+/usr/local/www/db/text/2008/freebsd-questions/20080323.freebsd-questions
>
> I also found a few similar reports from other users on the web:
>
> http://www.fug.com.br/historico/html/freebsd/2008-05/msg00208.html
> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2007-December/039355.html
>
> I realize the OS is telling me it's a hardware failure, and maybe the errors
> from the above links were caused by hardware failure as well. But what bugs
> me is that nothing else seems to have any problem with my hardware. Is
> there a better tool (other than memtest86) that I can use to diagnose
> hardware problems?
>
> Please make sure to copy me on your responses, I am not subscribed to
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Hi Mike,
  my solution to the problem was to plug a firewire drive in. You can 
remove the drive after it has been probed. Once i got the o.s installed 
i built a custom kernel without firewire.

hth