[rescue] FSCKing OpenBSD!

George Adkins george at webbastard.org
Wed Feb 13 22:59:56 CST 2002


> The 40 is an SS2 clone, right?
>
Yep.
> I may owe you an apology, in that I have seen some weirdness in IPC
> and IPX's when running OpenBSD on those.
>
No worries.
> The bug seems to be tickled by certain memory configurations, since
> each bank is mapped into a different range of virtual addresses and
> those virtual addresses are not contiguous (IIRC). In fact with one
> RAM config under 2.8 I could not get the floppy to successfully boot.
it's got 16x1 meg 60 ns simms.
the traceback and debug info seems to point to the compiler causing the 
kernel panic.  If the compiler were expecting to make an absolute jmp to what 
it expected to be a contiguous address, and that address were actually 
something else (fairly likely, considering that Top showed <90K free RAM 
during the incidents), I can see where the drop to debugger (what happens 
immediately after the panic) comes from.  I'm not a big time programmer, so 
this is just a guess.  the error message said something like "vref received 
when aref required" or something like that...  I wish I had written it down.

George



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