Fatal Trap 12 in 6.2-PRERELEASE

[Dominic Marks]

On Mon, 08 Jan 2007 07:48:54 -0500
"J. W. Ballantine" <jwb at homer.att.com> wrote:

> 
> I rebuilt and installed the kernel and world, and now when I
> try to boot the system it fails with a Fatal Trap 12: page
> fault while in kernel mode, with current process of 594 (ntpd).
> 
> Since it always fails, I can't do any of the checks in FAQ Advance Topics,
> or other checks.
> 
> Other than reinstall, is there anything I can do?

Try booting the old kernel, which is called kernel.old. See the
bottom of this page for how it is done:

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/boot-blocks.html

Dominic