kernel panic on AS100A

[Tom Ponsford]

Bernd Walter wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 12, 2005 at 09:53:23AM -0700, Tom Ponsford wrote:
> 
>>Hi All,
>>
>>I picked up a AS 1000A a few weeks ago. It has an EV5 300mhz cpu, 64MB mem, 
>>and 3 disks attached to a KZPSC raid controller ( a DAC960), , which is 
>>supported by freebsd.
>>I upgraded to v2.70 on the raid controller and the dmesg readout did not show 
>>any error messages, BUT the machine get a kernel panic after mounting the mfsroot 
>>complaining about a memory management fault. 
> 
> Strange this is the fdc0 process.
> Maybe you are getting out of physical RAM and the fdc driver fails to
> handle this properly - 64M is not very much for such a machine.
> 

Yeah, I'll dig up some more ram. but I wanted to see if the install worked first.
It actually ran NT with that much ram.

 >Since the fault address is 0x0 it's a NULL pointer dereference of some
 >sort.  A stack trace would be very useful if you can get one Tom.  As a 
workaround,
 >you can try unsetting the hints related to fd0 (i.e. variables in the loader
 >that start with 'hint.fd.0') and see if that fixes the issue for now.  If it 
does,
 >then get the machine installed, build a kernel with debug symbols and KDB 
and DDB and we
 >can look at fixing the actual panic.

OK I'll try that tonite or tommorrow and see where it goes.

Thanks

Tom

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