I don't have the DIAGNOSTIC option on, so I guess that might explain
why I'm not crashing immediately.  Now I've disabled DDB as well,
since I spend my days 10 miles away from console, and need my machine.
At least I wrote a program to automatically call and activate SLIP on
boot.

> You actually got it to run at all?  Every kernel I've built since the
> weekend drops into the kernel debugger seconds after starting the
> first fsck.  I'm still running Sunday's kernel.
> 
> Monday and today's kernel do this to me right after autoconfig, right
> as it's beginning to fsck:
> 
> 	vm_fault(f83d2a00, 0, 1, 0) -> 1
> 	kernel: page fault trap, code=0
> 	Stopped at    _uiomove+0x13:  cmpl $0x1,0x18(%edi)
> 
> 	in syscall 5
> 
> The edi register contains 0 (is NULL).  It appears edi is the uio
> pointer, so it's resolving a NULL reference:
> 
> #ifdef DIAGNOSTIC
>         if (uio->uio_rw != UIO_READ && uio->uio_rw != UIO_WRITE)
>                 panic("uiomove: mode");
> 
> I suppose if I removed DIAGNOSTIC from my kernel config it might run,
> but I'd rather know when things aren't working right inside.

	Mark
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