[KERNEL PANIC] Assigning IP to BCE on CURRENT

[Pyun YongHyeon]

On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 11:25:04AM +0200, Conrad Burger wrote:
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 > HARDWARE= DELL 1955 BLADE 
 > OS Version= CURRENT i386(2007-02-01) 
 > 
 > When I assign an IP to one of the BCE interfaces on the system the kernel
 > PANICS.
 > 
 > >From KDB:
 > ---------------------------------------------------------------
 > Panic: invalid ife->ifm_date (0xa) in mii_phy_setmedia 
 > 

I guess ukphy(4) was used to serve the PHY.
Would you post verbosed boot message?

 > Cpuid = 0 
 > KDB: enter:panic 
 > [ thread pid 715 tid 100041]
 > Stopped at kdb_enter + 0x2b:nop
 > ---------------------------------------------------------------
 > 
 > I then type "panic" and it writes a vmcore dump.  
 > 
 > But when I analyze the vmcore using kgdb and run a "bt" it only gives me the 
 > backtrace of the kdb and shutdown. 
 > 
 > Is there a way to write a dump without kdb interfering?
 > 
 > Another thing, I tried to install CURRENT-snapshot-2007-01(AMD64), but after it
 > boots from the USB DVDROM. Sysinstall cannot access the USB DVDROM. 
 > Is this a known problem?
 > 
 > Regards 
 > Conrad 
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Regards,
Pyun YongHyeon