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From: "Drew Tomlinson" <drew@mykitchentable.net>
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Subject: Boot Help - I've Gotten Myself Into Quite A Mess!
Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2002 14:06:50 -0700
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I was recently given an old Pentium 133 and motherboard so I decided
to replace my 486.  I shutdown, opened the case, replaced the
motherboard, and tried to reboot.  Well, DUH!  My kernel is compiled
for a 486 and thus it panics because it finds the Pentium.  See below:

Booting [kernel]...
Copyright (c) 1992-2002 The FreeBSD Project.
Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993,
1994
        The Regents of the University of California. All rights
reserved.
FreeBSD 4.5-STABLE #0: Fri Apr 12 08:31:42 PDT 2002
Timecounter "i8254"  frequency 1193311 Hz
Timecounter "TSC"  frequency 132968853 Hz
CPU: Pentium/P54C (Unknown-class CPU)
  Origin = "GenuineIntel"  Id = 0x52b  Stepping = 11
  Features=0x1bf<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,MCE,CX8>
panic: CPU class not configured
Uptime: 0s

I've kept the generic kernel around and expect I should be able to
boot from it.  However, I can't load it at the command prompt as it
says it can't find it.  But ls shows it.  Here's some output:

ok LS
/
 d  dev
 d  usr
 d  stand
 d  etc
 d  cdrom
 d  proc
 d  bin
 d  boot
 d  mnt
 d  modules
 d  root
 d  sbin
 d  tmp
 l  var
 l  sys
    kernel
    .profile
    COPYRIGHT
    kernel.GENERIC
    .cshrc
 l  compat
 l  home
    kernel.old
 d  modules.old
    .cshrc.old

ok LOAD KERNEL.GENERIC
can't find 'KERNEL.GENERIC'

Is the problem because everything is in all caps?  I have pressed the
caps lock key but it makes no difference.  It's in all caps all the
time.

How can I get out of this mess short of replacing the 486 board or
rebuilding from scratch?

Thanks,

Drew


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