Good day all, I have a Compaq Proliant 1600R equipped with dual Pentium 2 processors, ECC RAM and a Compaq Smart Array 2DH controller (which uses the ida driver). This machine has been working well with FreeBSD 4.8 and has been tracking the RELENG_4_8 tree without problems. Because running mySQL on 4.8 with SMP is flaky at best, I've been trying to update to 5.X. Sadly, every attempt to do so fails miserably, leading me to believe that there's something going on above my head.
Booting off the 5.1 boot floppies gives a page fault about 15 seconds after the mfsroot floppy finishes loading. I know what everyone's going to suggest - hardware - bad RAM or cache. I've run Memtest86 (http://www.memtest86.com/) for the complete suite of tests and it has found no errors. This, plus the fact that 4.8 worked flawlessly leads me to believe that this is not a hardware issue. I also tried remaking the boot disks with fresh floppies, using rawrite instead of fdimage. I get the same results with both methods. Following this I burned an ISO and booted from that - same thing. Here's the message from the panic: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- .... sio1: type 16550A vga0: <Generic ISA VGA> at port 0x3e0-0x3df iomem 0xa0000-0xbffff on isa0 Timecounters tick every 10.000 msec Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode fault virtual address = 0x5c fault code = supervisor read, page not present instruction pointer = 0x8:0xc01a6ed7 stack pointer = 0x10:0xd6b6dc70 frame pointer = 0x10:0xd6b6dc7c code segment = base 0x0, limit 0xfffff, type 0x1b = DPL 0, pres 1, def32 1, gran 1 processor eflags = interrupt enabled, resume, IOPC = 0 current process = 4 (g_down) trap number = 12 panic: page fault ... ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- I decided to try another approach: doing a CVSup from RELENG_4_8 to RELENG_5_1 and then remaking world and the kernel. The CVSup works well, but about an hour and a bit into make buildworld I get errors in libpthread and the make dies. Note that I followed the instructions in the Handbook and the src/UPDATING file to the letter. >From what I've heard and seen at http://www.freebsd.org/projects/busdma/ I gather that the ida driver is not ready for SMPng, but regardless. I should at least be able to get into sysinstall, shouldn't I? Does the 5.1 GENERIC kernel even use SMP? The release notes for 5.1 make no special mention of any issues that should affect me and all my hardware appears as being supported in the hardware notes for 5.1. Does anyone have further suggestions for me? Has anyone else got a similar hardware setup which works? I'm rather desperate for help - any suggestions are welcome. Thanks, Ed Aronyk _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
