Derek Ragona wrote:
I have a computer that has been running FreeBSD 4.X and 5.X without
problems. It runs 5.4 with no problems at all. This system has an
Intel 845 Motherboard and chipset, Intel Pentium 4 1.6 GHz CPU, 1 GB
RAM, NVidea GEForce MX/MX 400 video card, atapi CD-RW, IDE hard drive,
standard floppy. Nothing very exotic in this hardware.
I tried first to cvsup to 6.0, and rebuild everything. The build was
fine including a custom kernel, but when I tried to boot the new 6.0, I
got a panic, Fatal trap 12, page fault at the NVidea driver in the
boot. So I re-booted the kernel.old, reverted my sources to 5.4 and
rebuilt the system all again.
As the system rebuilt I downloaded and burned the ISO 6.0 image.
I tried to boot the ISO image and do a binary upgrade. The CD booted
6.0 fine, and the upgrade installed with only one error that the X.org
was already present. When I tried to boot the new 6.0 GENERIC kernel
that was installed, I got the same panic/page fault error I had when I
updated via cvsup.
But since the same GENERIC kernel boots fine from CD I suspect there may
be some loader options I might need? I'd appreciate any help with
getting 6.0 to boot without the panic.
Thanks
Hi Derek,
You probably just have to stop the nvidia driver from loading by
specifying "unset nvidia_load" at the boot prompt and reinstall the nvidia
driver once the system is booted.
That's what I did at least, and I have had no problems while I've heard
from other people that didn't disable and rebuilt their nvidia drivers
that they also got panics on boot.
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