Subject: Re: Boot trouble
To: Chuck McManis <cmcmanis@mcmanis.com>
From: Brian Chase <bdc@world.std.com>
List: port-vax
Date: 05/11/2000 17:22:05
On Thu, 11 May 2000, Chuck McManis wrote:
> Several things:
> > NetBSD 1.4L (NEWUBA) #527: Tue Oct 26 20:45:16 CEST 1999
>
> Pretty old kernel, -current is 1.4Y, I use 1.4X on my M76
>
> > primary cache status: 21a<DPERR,HIT,REFRESH,ENABLE>
> > secondary cache status: ffe1<TPE,DPE,MISS,ENABLE>
> > total memory = 32508 KB
> > memory error!
> > primary cache status: 21a<DPERR,HIT,REFRESH,ENABLE>
> > secondary cache status: ffe1<TPE,DPE,MISS,ENABLE>
> > avail memory = 27492 KB
>
> This looks very scary. Perhaps your memory has become unseated? Try
> re-seating the SIMMs (open the box, remove and replace them). Or have
> you recently tried to add memory?
Most likely the above is due to bad memory. I have seen weird cache
status errors on warm boots between different versions of the kernel.
-brian.
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