From owner-freebsd-current Thu Feb 27 4:11:16 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 94A5237B401; Thu, 27 Feb 2003 04:11:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.86.163]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A195C43FA3; Thu, 27 Feb 2003 04:11:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from phk@phk.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h1RCBAaa005738; Thu, 27 Feb 2003 13:11:11 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from phk@phk.freebsd.dk) To: Geoffrey Cc: Juli Mallett , current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Any ideas why we can't even boot a i386 ? From: phk@phk.freebsd.dk In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 27 Feb 2003 05:35:13 EST." <20030227052926.G28626-100000@iguana.reptiles.org> Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 13:11:10 +0100 Message-ID: <5737.1046347870@critter.freebsd.dk> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <20030227052926.G28626-100000@iguana.reptiles.org>, Geoffrey writes: >On Thu, 27 Feb 2003, Juli Mallett wrote: > >> * De: Poul-Henning Kamp [ 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 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | 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 majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message