worst FreeBSD EVAR. (crash on boot)

[Robert Watson]

On Sat, 28 Feb 2004, Alfred Perlstein wrote:

> So I'm updating from a Dec 5th kernel to today's so as to hopefully
> restore the cool pre-Dec 5th ACPI behaviour which was: 
>   Hitting the power button did an orderly shutdown. 
> 
> Instead of Dec 5th's behaviour which is: 
>   Randomly (well mostly when I fat finger ^A-n to switch screens) 
>     failing to suspend to disk and then completely locking up. 
>   Hitting power button does an immediate shutdown.. like power OFF,
>     no orderly shutdown, fsck at boot required, baby jesus cries etc. 
> 
> Well now I have a kernel that won't even boot, here's the dmesg from the
> Dec 5th kernel with a marker where the panic happens on the newer kernel
> (noted by: <<<PANIC HERE ON NEW KERNEL>>) any help would be appreciated. 
> 
> Machine is an old laptop, a Dell Latitude, celeron 300, 128 megs of ram. 
> It seems to crash both with and without ACPI loaded now. 

I have one of these at work, or something very similar.  I'll give it a
try on Monday.  That said, I booted a kernel from about two weeks ago on
it with no problems only a week or so ago.  Question: are you running the
most recent BIOS update available from Dell? 

Any chance you have the whole trap message, can figure out what symbol it
is, etc?

Robert N M Watson             FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Projects
robert at fledge.watson.org      Senior Research Scientist, McAfee Research