6.0-beta4 available

Peter Grehan grehan at freebsd.org
Thu Sep 8 18:59:34 PDT 2005


> This seems to fail on the G3 systems I've tried (a blue and white tower 
> and a non-DV iMac) with an "instruction storage interrupt" immediately 
> after the loader vanishes. The screen turns black and that's the first 
> thing that comes up. I can't use the debugger -- the system completely 
> hangs. I'm going to go give some other systems a shot in a minute.

  Yep, you're right, just tried it on the revB iMac and same issue. I 
only did a quick install test on a G4 eMac after the build.

  For those interested in details, it's bombing out in pmap_bootstrap() 
just after the IBAT is set up to direct-map the bottom 256Mb.

  I'm pretty sure BETA3 installed fine on the iMac, so I'll try and find 
the regression.

later,

Peter.


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