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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!news.ececs.uc.edu!news.kei.com!nntprelay.mathworks.com!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Problem with 2.2.1 Install !!! Date: 17 Jun 1997 22:10:03 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 24 Message-ID: <5o71vr$ja8@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <33A2659D.41C67EA6@silas.cc.monash.edu.au> <33A282BD.31DFF4F5@freebsd.org> <5o47mr$e49@uriah.heep.sax.de> <33A68860.41C67EA6@silas.cc.monash.edu.au> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:43085 David Henshaw <dhenshaw@silas.cc.monash.edu.au> wrote: > > This means the page tables on your machine are corrupted. Oh well, i > > don't say it's not the os's fault, but it's not unlikely a memory > > problem either. At any rate, it will require serious investigation > > before it's possible to spot this (since the time when the page table > > is corrupted and the spot where the crash happens might be very > > different). > How can I go about fixing the problem so I can use the ed0 driver ? See above: i can't give you any hints apart from saying that it will requires serious work, like single-stepping the kernel in the debugger, in order to find the spot where it trashes the page tables. In the worst case, you'll wast dozens of hours to finally find that you cannot really spot it, and it's likely a hardware failure. In the best case, you find a bug nobody else encountered so far. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)