The following reply was made to PR kern/32224; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Matthias Scheler <tron@zhadum.org.uk>
To: YAMAMOTO Takashi <yamt@mwd.biglobe.ne.jp>
Cc: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org
Subject: Re: kern/32224 (NetBSD 3.99.13 doesn't boot because of pmap errors)
Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2005 23:04:10 +0000

 On Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 07:57:03AM +0900, YAMAMOTO Takashi wrote:
 > >  I've tried to figured out at what point during system startup the messages
 > >  start to appear by manually invoking all scripts in "/etc/rc.d". The
 > >  messages start to appear when "/etc/rc.d/savecore" is run. They stop
 > >  as soon as I abort the script.
 > 
 > does it happen only when you have a dump to save,
 
 Apparently. I've saved the last crash dump this morning and "savecore"
 doesn't trigger the "pmap" errors at the monent/
 
 > or does it happen even after savecore -c?
 
 Not sure. I think I tried that at some point but cannot remember the
 result.
 
 > can you trigger it by dd with bs=1m?
 
 I tried like this ...
 
 tron@lyssa:~tron#dd if=/dev/rwd0b bs=1m of=/dev/zero 
 dd: /dev/rwd0b: Invalid argument
 2583+1 records in
 2583+1 records out
 2709504000 bytes transferred in 53.778 secs (50383130 bytes/sec)
 
 tron@lyssa:/scratch/lyssa/XFree86-4.5.0>dd if=XFree86-4.5.0-src-1.tgz of=/dev/null bs=1m
 10+1 records in
 10+1 records out
 10507331 bytes transferred in 0.230 secs (45684047 bytes/sec)
 
 ... but nothing happend.
 
 	Kind regards
 
 -- 
 Matthias Scheler                                  http://scheler.de/~matthias/