Re: page fault while in kernel mode

2008-10-21 Thread John Baldwin
On Monday 20 October 2008 08:52:07 pm Robert Fitzpatrick wrote: On Mon, 2008-10-20 at 13:45 -0400, John Baldwin wrote: i386 cannot address more than 4GB unless the kernel is built with PAE mode enabled. This isn't enabled in GENERIC for many (justified) reasons. If you have more than

Re: page fault while in kernel mode

2008-10-21 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
On Tue, 2008-10-21 at 12:03 -0400, John Baldwin wrote: Some drivers don't work with PAE (see all the 'nodevice' lines in /sys/i386/conf/PAE). You'll need to purge those drivers from your config. If you are using the hardware those drivers support, then you can't use PAE. Thanks for the

Re: page fault while in kernel mode

2008-10-21 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 02:35:22PM -0400, Robert Fitzpatrick wrote: On Tue, 2008-10-21 at 12:03 -0400, John Baldwin wrote: Some drivers don't work with PAE (see all the 'nodevice' lines in /sys/i386/conf/PAE). You'll need to purge those drivers from your config. If you are using the

Re: page fault while in kernel mode

2008-10-21 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
On Tue, 2008-10-21 at 11:47 -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: The drivers which don't work are listed in the /sys/i386/conf/PAE file. They're prefixed by the word nodevice, which tells the kernel config reader DO NOT build this device, because it won't work. You will need to take the nodevice

Re: page fault while in kernel mode

2008-10-21 Thread John Baldwin
On Tuesday 21 October 2008 02:47:11 pm Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 02:35:22PM -0400, Robert Fitzpatrick wrote: On Tue, 2008-10-21 at 12:03 -0400, John Baldwin wrote: Some drivers don't work with PAE (see all the 'nodevice' lines in /sys/i386/conf/PAE). You'll need to

Re: page fault while in kernel mode

2008-10-21 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
On Tue, 2008-10-21 at 15:09 -0400, John Baldwin wrote: Alternatively, you could just remove the 'device adv' line from your kernel config rather than adding lots of 'nodevice' lines at the bottom. You can usually do 'man 4 driver name' to see what devices it supports. In this case,

Re: page fault while in kernel mode

2008-10-21 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 03:22:28PM -0400, Robert Fitzpatrick wrote: On Tue, 2008-10-21 at 15:09 -0400, John Baldwin wrote: Alternatively, you could just remove the 'device adv' line from your kernel config rather than adding lots of 'nodevice' lines at the bottom. You can usually do

Re: page fault while in kernel mode

2008-10-21 Thread John Baldwin
On Tuesday 21 October 2008 03:22:28 pm Robert Fitzpatrick wrote: On Tue, 2008-10-21 at 15:09 -0400, John Baldwin wrote: Alternatively, you could just remove the 'device adv' line from your kernel config rather than adding lots of 'nodevice' lines at the bottom. You can usually do

Re: page fault while in kernel mode

2008-10-20 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
On Sun, 2008-10-19 at 13:16 -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 03:50:01PM -0400, Robert Fitzpatrick wrote: I took a working 5.4-i386 server and trying to convert its RAID 5 to RAID 10 and load 7.0 amd64. I kept getting BTX halted even after flashing the latest bios and

Re: page fault while in kernel mode

2008-10-20 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 12:07:17PM -0400, Robert Fitzpatrick wrote: On Sun, 2008-10-19 at 13:16 -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 03:50:01PM -0400, Robert Fitzpatrick wrote: I took a working 5.4-i386 server and trying to convert its RAID 5 to RAID 10 and load 7.0

Re: page fault while in kernel mode

2008-10-20 Thread John Baldwin
On Monday 20 October 2008 12:32:37 pm Jeremy Chadwick wrote: Forgot to mention I added memory to this server as well, took it from 2GB it was using under 5.4-RELEASE up to 6GB filling all slots, that is why I wanted to load amd64. I reduced down to 4GB and now am able to install

Re: page fault while in kernel mode

2008-10-20 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
On Mon, 2008-10-20 at 13:45 -0400, John Baldwin wrote: i386 cannot address more than 4GB unless the kernel is built with PAE mode enabled. This isn't enabled in GENERIC for many (justified) reasons. If you have more than 4GB, you should be using amd64, so you made the right decision

Re: page fault while in kernel mode

2008-10-19 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 03:50:01PM -0400, Robert Fitzpatrick wrote: I took a working 5.4-i386 server and trying to convert its RAID 5 to RAID 10 and load 7.0 amd64. I kept getting BTX halted even after flashing the latest bios and firmware for the raid card, Intel SRCZCR, in this dual Xeon

Re: page fault while in kernel mode

2005-10-25 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 12:11:29PM +0100, Owen Smith wrote: Whats the best thing todo? debugging kernel etc or just upgrade to 5.4? The latter. A few hundred bugs were fixed between 5.3 and 5.4, and the former is no longer supported anyway. Kris pgpT4R8dnqxnu.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: page fault while in kernel mode

2005-10-24 Thread stan
On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 12:11:29PM +0100, Owen Smith wrote: Whats the best thing todo? debugging kernel etc or just upgrade to 5.4? Run a memory est on the machine. memtest386 works well. -- U.S. Encouraged by Vietnam Vote - Officials Cite 83% Turnout Despite Vietcong Terror - New York