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Date:      Thu, 27 Feb 2003 13:11:10 +0100
From:      phk@phk.freebsd.dk
To:        Geoffrey <geoffrey@reptiles.org>
Cc:        Juli Mallett <jmallett@FreeBSD.org>, current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Any ideas why we can't even boot a i386 ? 
Message-ID:  <5737.1046347870@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 27 Feb 2003 05:35:13 EST." <20030227052926.G28626-100000@iguana.reptiles.org> 

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In message <20030227052926.G28626-100000@iguana.reptiles.org>, Geoffrey writes:
>On Thu, 27 Feb 2003, Juli Mallett wrote:
>
>> * De: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> [ 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.

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