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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!uunet!news.mathworks.com!newshost.marcam.com!charnel.ecst.csuchico.edu!olivea!news.hal.COM!darkstar.UCSC.EDU!usenet From: Paul Stith <pauls@cats.ucsc.edu> Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: [Q] page fault kernel panic .. Date: 3 Feb 1995 19:43:17 GMT Organization: University of California, Santa Cruz Lines: 28 Message-ID: <3gu10l$k6o@darkstar.UCSC.EDU> References: <3gou26$oci@News.Simplex.NL> <3gt7dr$pn8@highway.LeidenUniv.nl> NNTP-Posting-Host: tsa-43.ucsc.edu nick%ruly46.leidenuniv.nl (Nick Pearson) wrote: > > Rob Simons (rob@Simplex.NL) wrote: > : Hiya, > > : I've got FreeBSD 1.1.5.1 running on a 486DX2/66 at home. Every now and > : then (more now than then alas) it panics with the following messages: > > : fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode > : fault virtual address = 0xefcf5898 > : fault code = supervisor read, page not present > : instruction pointer = 0xf0167a33 > > > Try switching off the ROM BIOS and VGA BIOS caching in your BIOS setup. > > This alway's seems to do the trick for me !! > > Nick > Hmmm... I was seeing simular errors too. I though it might be my RAM so I pulled the 4 1 MBs and now only have 16MB. Seems to be more stable. Guess I could turn of shadowing and try them again? -Paul