On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 11:55:43PM +0200, Tonnerre LOMBARD wrote:
> Well, I figured that SATA write caching was disabled in the BIOS. I enabled
> it but now the thing won't boot up:
> 
> Internet Software Consortium DHCP Client V3.0.1rc11                             
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> For info, please visit http://www.iscbge0: block failed to stop: reg 0x1400, bi2
> .org/products/DHCP                                                              
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> Listening on BPF/bge0/00:e0:81:5c:a2:18                                         
> Sending on   BPF/bge0/00:e0:81:5c:a2:18                                         
> Sending on   Socket/fallback                                                    
> DHCPREQUEST on buvm_fault(0xffff80000ec48420, 0x0, 0, 1) -> e                   
> fatal page fault in supervisor mode                                             
> trap type 6 code 0 rip ffffffff804207ba cs 8 rflags 10246 cr2  b8 cpl 0 rsp fff0
> syncing disks... 
> 
> Not nice!
> 
> I don't get thrown to the DDB like I would expect to. Also, the CMOS
> checksum is wrong on the next boot every time:

do you have sysctl ddb.onpanic=1 ?

Pavel