PANIC - Non-recoverable kernal page fault...
Bob Willey
bob at consult.UUCP
Sat Mar 3 00:01:15 AEST 1990
In article <77688 at tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> Mowgli Assor <mowgli at cis.ohio-state.edu> writes:
>Well, here it goes again! <Sigh> Recently, we have had a rash of page fault
>panics (4 in 5 days). We have not changed anything for weeks! So, can someone
>The machine we are using is an IBM PS/2 Model 80, 6Meg RAM, ~100Meg HD, w/3
>Digiport smart modem boards. Thursday, we got the following error messages:
>Trap 0000000E in SYSTEM error = 00000000
>Panic - Non-recoverable Kernal Page Fault
>Trap 0000000E in SYSTEM error = 00000000
>Panic - Non-recoverable Kernal Page Fault
>Address: mowgli at puffer.cis.ohio-state.edu (Mowgli Assor in real life)
> Or: mowgli at cis.ohio-state.edu, mowgli at osu-20.ircc.ohio-state.edu
This problem has been report before.
There was a problem with the dkinit program and the
way that the PS/2 drives reported the info to it for
the automatic install. Basically what happened was that
the drive was being formatted as 112 cylinder instead of 110
and thus the page (swap) area is in non-existent space.!!
Check how the drive is configured:
ESDI Drive 70 MB 115 MB 300 MB
Cylinders 70 110 300
Heads 64 64 64
Sectors per track 32 32 32
..
If you have this problem, it will necessitate reformatting the
drive. The reason you probably did not notice it prior
(Because we didn't notice it at first either), is due to
activity on the system. When you finally had enough activity
(bunch of tasks in Pro maybe...) then it filled up the
swap space and then the PANIC.
Hope this helps.
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