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Date:      Wed, 20 Feb 2002 07:29:28 -0800
From:      "Jesse Geddis" <sgeine@yahoo.com>
To:        <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   RE: boot GENERIC won't work, after kernel panic on startup for new kernel
Message-ID:  <NGBBKILMGLGEDIHMGJANGEBJCAAA.sgeine@yahoo.com>
In-Reply-To: <20020220102748.A22578@blackhelicopters.org>

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I thought Cyrix chips were under the 686 category

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Michael Lucas
Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2002 7:28 AM
To: Sandro Mancuso
Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: boot GENERIC won't work, after kernel panic on startup for
new kernel


unload the old kernel.


ok unload
ok boot kernel.GENERIC

Can you tell me where in the handbook this is?

On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 10:22:44AM -0500, Sandro Mancuso wrote:
> I spent all of last night making a new kernel.  I thought it was
> perfect.  I was wrong.  I get a message about the cpu class not being
> configured (I'm guessing the old Cyrix cpu's didn't fall under 586?)
> 
> In the handbook, it says that in such a situation, you can fall into
> single user mode and use the command "boot GENERIC" (or any other kernel
> of course).  However when I do this I get a message like this:
> 
> Can't boot 'GENERIC', kernel module already loaded
> 
> Any ideas on how I can salvage this?
> 
> -Sandro
> 
> 
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