Re: port-amd64/42128: page fault trap installing NetBSD/amd64 5.0.1 under Xen

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 06:30:04PM +0000, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> The following reply was made to PR port-amd64/42128; it has been noted by 
> GNATS.
> 
> From: "Jeremy C. Reed" <reed%reedmedia.net@localhost>
> To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
> Cc: 
> Subject: Re: port-amd64/42128: page fault trap installing NetBSD/amd64 5.0.1
>  under Xen
> Date: Sat, 26 Sep 2009 13:27:43 -0500 (CDT)
> 
>  On Sat, 26 Sep 2009, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
>  
>  > > Installing as a Xen guest using the amd64cd-5.0.1.iso.  When it
>  > > got to the untar step in sysinst (extracting kern-GENERIC.tgz), it
>  > > aborted with:
>  > 
>  > Is it a PV guest or a HVM guest ?
>  
>  Sorry, I do not know. I do not know what this means. How can I check?

Did you use one of the netbsd-XEN* kernel ? Of a plain amd64 kernel ?

>  
>  > > kernel: page fault trap, code=0
>  > > Stopped in pid 0.4 (system) at  0xffffffff804f163e:    repe insl      
>  > > %dx,%es:(%rdi)
>  > > db{0}> bt
>  > > ?() at 0xffffffff804f163e
>  > > ?() at 0xffffffff804fefc7
>  > > ?() at 0xffffffff802c3207
>  > > ?() at 0xffffffff804e0e4d
>  > > ?() at 0xffffffff80105a4f
>  > > Bad frame pointer: 0xffff800001215ac40
>  > 
>  > Also what is the message just before the page fault ? Did it start
>  > userland at this point ?
>  
>  Sorry, I do not know of any previous message.
>  
>  Yes, userland was running. sysinst was running. I had been using it. It 
>  failed after a few minutes when it got to the tar ball extraction step. 
>  (Same as the Jan 2008 report.)

OK.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
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