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Re: page fault in RAMDISK_CD kernel on latest snapshot

3.6-stable works perfectly in the same virtual setup, as show in the
dmesg in my original email from 3.6-stable compiled only a few days
ago. I even had an older snapshot working on this vmware setup, but
removed that virtual and I was going to put a newer snapshot on, when
I got this error. If 3.6-stable works just fine, and -current won't
even give me an Install, Upgrade, Shell prompt, that tells me it's not
the "hardware" or lack there of, however you want to phrase it.
Everything OpenBSD worked in my current setup until I tried this
latest snapshot. 3.6-stable still works and is still running:
$ uname -a
OpenBSD obsd36patch.hcpnet.org 3.6 VMWARE#0 i386
$ 

(Yes, it's a custom kernel, but that is not the issue atm, so don't
bother arguing about that, I'm having problems with current using
RAMDISK_CD kernel, from ftp.usa.openbsd.org)

On Tue, 01 Feb 2005 12:54:34 -0500, Nick Holland
<nick@holland-consulting.net> wrote:
> Jason Crawford wrote:
> > I am trying to install the latest snapshot from ftp.usa.openbsd.org
> > for i386, and I get a page fault before it shows the install menu. I
> > have 3.6-stable running fine on the exact same hardware, both dmesg's
> > below.
> 
> uh...interesting "hardware" there:
> 
> > cd0 at scsibus0 targ 0 lun 0: <NECVMWar, VMware IDE CDR10, 1.00> SCSI0
> ...
> > vga1 at pci0 dev 15 function 0 "VMware Virtual SVGA II" rev 0x00
> 
> Out of curiosity, does this snapshot work on the actual HARDWARE, rather
> than the vmware simulator?
> 
> It took me a while to figure out why you stuck such an old NIC and SCSI
> adapter were doing on such a fast, new machine. :)
> 
> Properly defining the nature of the problem will often help get the
> right people's attention.  Refering to VMWare as "hardware" is
> misleading...probably had a lot of people who should be investigating
> this tune out when they glance at the first few lines of your dmesg and
> think, "I got nothing like this"...
> 
> Nick.
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