buildkernel fails

Kirill Ponomarew krion at FreeBSD.org
Tue Mar 2 12:21:38 PST 2004


Hi,

On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 09:34:32AM -0500, Brian J. McGovern wrote:
> I'm no expert on Sparc, but this has a classic symptom of bad memory or the
> supporting hardware.
> 
> For chuckles, try rerunning the command w/o cleaning up in between. If you
> eventually make it through, odds are, its RAM. Depending on how bad the ram
> is, you may have to do this alot (had a bad x86 box, recently, where a 
> buildworld took some 30 attempts, but made it).
> 
> If it was dying in the same place repeatedly, I'd suspect bad code, and then
> bad tools, in that order. :)

I run today sysutils/crashme for testing memory, and got
successful results (I don't have "test-memory" in OpenBoot).
Well, I'll try to investigate it further.

-Kirill
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