i386/61253: panic: page fault on installation freebsd 4.9 on acer travelmate 290

[christian jeannot]

>Number:         61253
>Category:       i386
>Synopsis:       panic: page fault on installation freebsd 4.9 on acer travelmate 290
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-i386
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Mon Jan 12 05:20:24 PST 2004
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     christian jeannot
>Release:        4.9
>Organization:
>Environment:
not possible at this state
>Description:
Installation freebsd 4.9 via pxe fails cause of panic: page fault on acer travelmate 290. first i thaught of an hardware error. after searching the internet for this case i see some mails from people with the same notebook and the same problem.

i prepared the pxe boot method as described in the article by alfred perlstein. my server is a 4.9 stable. i did try the kernel from the floppy installation and a customized kernel. in both cases i get the same error. i write down the page i see on my notebook:
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agp0: aperture size is 128M
pci0: <unknown card> (vendor=0x8086, dev=0x3582) at 2.1
uhci0: <Intel 82801DB (ICH4) USB controller USB-A> port 0x1200x121f irq 0 at device 29.0 on pci0
pci_cfgintr_virgin: using routeable interrupt 5


Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode
fault virtual address   = 0xe7e02
fault code              = supervisor read, page not present
instruction pointer     = 0x8:0xc00e9d05
stack pointer           = 0x10:0xc07fadac
frame pointer           = 0x10:0xc07fadac
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 (swapper)
interrupt mask          = net tty bio cam
trap number             = 12
panic: page fault
Uptime 0s
Automatic reboot ...
>How-To-Repeat:
everytime i boot via network.
>Fix:
      
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