Thanks for the help...I booted the GENERIC kernel, and it allowed me to log in as root, but as soon as I started to to anything (I think I did "cd") it panicked.
I'm going to run the memtest86 and see if it says anything. If you think it would be useful, I could do more debugging on the new vmcore file. Thanks again! --- Brad Marsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2006 14:58:23 -0800 (PST) > From: Brad Marsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Help with panic: vm_fault > To: Mark Tinguely <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Does the Mainboard say that it can handle this amount > > of RAM? > > The manual for the motherboard says I can use up to two 1GB modules. > > (And I used to have two 256MB modules, so I know it can handle two at > a > time. Also, right now I'm using one 512 and one 256.) > > > Do you have 2 video cards, for example a built into the > > mainboard but disabled? > > Just the built-in video adapter. > > > Is this a GENERIC kernel or has it been modified? I see > > the compile directory is DEBUG, so I am guessing it > > could be a custom kernel. > > Yeah, I customized it first thing. Then after all this trouble I > built > a debug kernel and put the two modules in again so I'd have the debug > info. > > > > #17 0xc062b6bf in Xint0x80_syscall () at > > > ../../../i386/i386/exception.s:200 > > > #18 0x00000033 in ?? () > > > Previous frame inner to this frame (corrupt stack?) > > > (kgdb) q > > > > Level 17 is wrong, because that is not a caller of > > pmap_change_wiring(). > > Maybe the stack frame got corrupted and the strange VA > > is another side effect of the corruption. > > > ...if this is not a GENERIC kernel, could you try > > boo[t]ing say the install CD to eliminate > > options in the kernel? > > Great idea. I kept the original GENERIC kernel around just for this > purpose. Back in a while... > > Thanks! > > P.S. I've been working toward testing with memtest86, but this > machine > doesn't have a floppy, the USB floppy isn't working (strangely enough > - > it used to), and I don't have any CDs at this office that the burner > can use! I'm having a lovely day. :^) __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"