See my earlier post today, it is due to the PnP probe.
If you boot a kernel which is older than Mikes commit,
you can boot the new kernel after a soft reboot...
Poul-Henning
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Thomas Stromberg writes:
>Background:
>-----------
>Work recently assigned me a Gateway GP7-500 (PIII-500mhz, 96M RAM) to
>replace my older 333mhz PII that's been running FreeBSD 3.2.. Of course,
>as my testing machine, I wanted to run FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT on it, and
>installed the 19990806 snapshot without a problem, and then cvsupped it
>to -CURRENT.
>
>Problem:
>--------
>This was on 17AUG, my kernel panic'd, I just assumed I left something
>out, but then I saw that GENERIC panic'd as well, and has panic'd since
>17AUG, and continues to do so with the -CURRENT snapshot of an hour
>ago. However, GENERIC from 19990806 works just fine. I decided that
>after 3 days of kernel panics that it's a real problem and not just some
>little -CURRENT breakage.
>
>I decided yesterday that maybe I need to make world first, so I did. No
>dice there. And an hour ago, I also rm -Rf'd /usr/src, cvsupped to
>-CURRENT, made world again, and attempted to rebuild the kernel.
>
>Boot Sequence:
>--------------
>If you want to see dmesg.boot from the 4.0-19990806-CURRENT snapshot,
>it's at http://haloblack.org/misc/dmesg.boot
>
>FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT #0: thu Aug 19 12:44:12 EDT 1999
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/compile/GENERIC+DDB
>Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz
>CPU: Pentium III (498.67-MHz 686-class CPU)
> Origin = "Genuine Intel" Id = 0x672 Stepping = 2
> Features = blah blah blah
>real memory = 100663296 (98304K bytes)
>config> di lnc0
>config> di le0
>..
>..
>config> q
>avail memory = 93708288 (91512K bytes)
>
>
>Fatal trap 9: general protection fault while in kernel mode
>instruction pointer = 0x58:0xbc28
>stack pointer = 0x10:0xed4
>frame pointer = 0x10:0xf20
>code segment = base 0xc00f0000, limit 0xffff, type 0x1b
> = DPL 0, pres 1, def32 0, gran 0
>processor eflags = interrupt enabled, resume, IOPL = 0
>current process = Idle
>interrupt mask = net tty bio cam
>kernel: type 9 trap, code=0
>Stopped at 0xbc28:
>
><repeat, DDB?>
>
>
>
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