Subject: Re: 1.4_ALPHA trouble on AMD386 without FPU
To: None <bsieker@TechFak.Uni-Bielefeld.DE, port-i386@netbsd.org>
From: Dave Burgess <burgess@neonramp.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 04/12/1999 14:18:14
At 02:23 AM 4/11/99 +0200, Bernd Sieker wrote:
>Hi
>
>I recently installed 1.4_ALPHA on an AMD K6-2, but that main board
>went bad and I have it checked.
>
>So I plugged the hard disks to my old 80386 board, booted with the 
>install floppies, copied the generic kernel to /netbsd and
>rebooted from hard disk.
>
>When trying to fsck the partitions, the largest of them (about 1.2GB)
>causes a kernel panic:
>
>  panic: pagedaemon: clean anon page without backing store?
>  Stopped in pagedaemon at _Debugger +0x4: leave
>
>If I try this without activating a swap partition, the fsck process is killed
>with the message "out of swap", having enough swap space causes the above
>panic.
>

That was the error I was in too big a hurry to write down the other night. 
I had a bad spot in my swap disk space and it was killing my machine.


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Dave Burgess                   Network Engineer - Nebraska On-Ramp, Inc.
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