Re: Sporadic kernel panic booting old i386 hardware, 3.7 GENERIC

2006-03-23 Thread mickey
On Thu, Mar 23, 2006 at 09:31:38AM +1030, Damon McMahon wrote: Greetings, re For the second time in a week the following kernel panic has occured on boot. In between these two events the firewall has booted many times without issue. booting hd0a:/bsd: 4686336+945680

Sporadic kernel panic booting old i386 hardware, 3.7 GENERIC

2006-03-22 Thread Damon McMahon
Greetings, For the second time in a week the following kernel panic has occured on boot. In between these two events the firewall has booted many times without issue. booting hd0a:/bsd: 4686336+945680 [52+241344+223335]=0x5d08e0 entry point at 0x100120 [ using 465104 bytes of bsd ELF symbol

Re: Sporadic kernel panic booting old i386 hardware, 3.7 GENERIC

2006-03-22 Thread Darrin Chandler
Stuart Henderson wrote: On 2006/03/23 09:31, Damon McMahon wrote: Is this (very old) hardware just giving up the ghost, bad RAM (I've seen a couple of mentions in the archives pointing to this), some other component in need of replacement, or something else worth investigating further?

Re: Sporadic kernel panic booting old i386 hardware, 3.7 GENERIC

2006-03-22 Thread Damon McMahon
Thanks, Stuart. Hmmm... the machine is only connected by a serial console. Does anyone know if OpenBSD-compatible source code for memtest86 is available? The linux code doesn't compile on OpenBSD, and I'd like to be able to interact with it via a serial console, preferably. Cheers, Damon On

Re: Sporadic kernel panic booting old i386 hardware, 3.7 GENERIC

2006-03-22 Thread Bryan Irvine
On 3/22/06, Damon McMahon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks, Stuart. Hmmm... the machine is only connected by a serial console. Does anyone know if OpenBSD-compatible source code for memtest86 is available? The linux code doesn't compile on OpenBSD, and I'd like to be able to interact with it

Re: Sporadic kernel panic booting old i386 hardware, 3.7 GENERIC

2006-03-22 Thread Damon McMahon
Thanks to all who've responded. Through google I eventually found source code for memtester 4.0.5 at http://pyropus.ca/software/memtester/ . Compiled out of the box, however my RAM tested all OK which leaves me back to where i started... Any other suggestions? At the ddb prompt is there