FreeBSD on old laptop, installer panic

[Jason Morgan]

On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 06:55:57PM -0400, Zac Berkowitz wrote:
> I'm giving FreeBSD a go on my laptop, but I'm running into problems 
> straight off the 5.4-STABLE installer.  At first it would hang without an 
> error.  After I disabled power management in the bios  I got a bit further 
> - now it crashes with a panic:
> -------------------------------------
> pcib0: <intel 82443BX (440 BX) host to PCI bridge> pcibus 0 on motherboard
> pir0: <PCI Interrupt Routing Table: 8 Entries> on motherboard
> pci0: <PCI bus> on pcib0
> 
> Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode
> fault virtual address = 0xeb871
> fault code              = supervisor read, page not present
> instruction pointer   = 0x8 :0xc00eb757
> stack pointer          = 0x10 :0xc1020a0
> frame pointer          = 0x10 :0xc1020a0
> code segment         = base 0x0, limit 0xfffff, type 0x1b
>                            = DPL 0, pres 1, def32 1, IOPL = 0
> processor eflags      = interrupt enabled, resume, IOPL = 0
> current process       = 0
> trap number            =12
> 
> panic: page fault
> --------------------------------------------
> 
> Some googling with the fault virtual address turned up a few pages, but 
> none in english and seemingly none coming to a solution.  lspci -v in linux 
> gives me
> 
> -------------------------------------
> 0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX AGP bridge 
> (rev 03) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
>        Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 0
>        Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=0
>        I/O behind bridge: 00008000-00009fff
>        Memory behind bridge: d8000000-dfffffff
>        Prefetchable memory behind bridge: d0000000-d7ffffff
> -------------------------------------
> 
> Any ideas?  Usually my *NIX give me panics /after/ I get through installing 
> them : p
> 

I've had the same problem on an old laptop. I was told to try older
releases (tried 4.11 and 5.4). I haven't gotten around to it, but that's
somewhere to start.

Cheers,
Jason