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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!pumpkin.pangea.ca!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!howland.erols.net!newshub2.home.com!newshub1.home.com!news.home.com!news1.best.com!nntp2.ba.best.com!not-for-mail From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Problem with 2.2.1 Install !!! Date: Sat, 14 Jun 1997 04:38:37 -0700 Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM Lines: 45 Message-ID: <33A282BD.31DFF4F5@FreeBSD.org> References: <33A2659D.41C67EA6@silas.cc.monash.edu.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: time.cdrom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-STABLE i386) To: David Henshaw <dhenshaw@silas.cc.monash.edu.au> Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:42933 David Henshaw wrote: > And BANG.... > Straight after the ed0 probe (which should probe the 3Com board) I Only one type of 3Com card (the 3c503) - the more generally encountered 3Com products actually probe with the ep driver. Are you sure of this one? > received the following rather large (and awe inspiring/scary) message. > > Fatal trap 12 : page fault while in kernel mode > fault virtual address = 0refc00000 > fault code = supervisor read, page not present Hmmm. That's definitely weird - it sure would be nice to know exactly which driver triggers this. It would definitely help us to narrow the search. Are you up to a little regression testing, perhaps? :) > So I rebooted and entered the kernel config mode and disabled all > devices that definitely were not required (and YES...I mean only those > not required!!). After doing so I exited the kernel config mode and > found another problem. THE KERNEL FAILED TO START and the system Hmmmm. Sorry to doubt you, but are you *positive* that you didn't get overzealous here? Maybe deleted npx0 or sc0 or something positively vital like that? > Secondly, during the next few releases, the upgrade option really needs > to be polished. In my opinion, several things need doing. > [wish list, already much discussed in various mailing lists, elided] Yeah, this basically all falls out of the distribution/package merger, a project which has always been on my TODO list but which has also awaited my rewriting of the package tools to overcome several core problems which make the current ones unsuitable for this. Life being what it is, that process has dragged out far longer than hoped. The project is now starting to gain more momentum, though I'm not making any predictions on release dates just yet. Suffice it to say that sysinstall's days are definitely numbered, even if it got an undesirable 2 year reprieve on its originally scheduled date of demise. :) -- - Jordan Hubbard FreeBSD core team / Walnut Creek CDROM.