In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Geoffrey writes: >On Thu, 27 Feb 2003, Juli Mallett wrote: > >> * De: Poul-Henning Kamp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [ Data: 2003-02-27 ] >> [ Subjecte: Any ideas why we can't even boot a i386 ? ] >> > Yup. 386dx - 33Mhz. Results below: >> > >> > Loaded kern.flp, mfsroot.flp, prompted for boot, then core dumped >> > as follows: >> >> Was this normal release? I thought I recalled a convo resulting in >> the decision that 386 would require special release bits? > > Yes, it was from release floppies written a couple of weeks ago. >In fairness, it might not like my scsi host adapter (Adaptec 1542CF). Or >there may be an issue with the size of the drive (HP C2490 - 2 GB). The >bios only supports one controller so fitting enough IDE drives for src, >obj, usr and swap wasn't an option.
You need to recompile a kernel where you explicitly add support for the i386 cpu. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
