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Date:      Thu, 27 Feb 2003 13:27:55 +0200
From:      Ruslan Ermilov <ru@freebsd.org>
To:        Geoffrey <geoffrey@reptiles.org>
Cc:        Juli Mallett <jmallett@freebsd.org>, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>, current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Any ideas why we can't even boot a i386 ?
Message-ID:  <20030227112755.GC39346@sunbay.com>
In-Reply-To: <20030227052926.G28626-100000@iguana.reptiles.org>
References:  <20030227042706.A67762@FreeBSD.org> <20030227052926.G28626-100000@iguana.reptiles.org>

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On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 05:35:13AM -0500, Geoffrey wrote:
> 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.
> 
: RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/sys/i386/conf/GENERIC,v
: Working file: GENERIC
: head: 1.376
: branch:
: locks: strict
: access list:
: keyword substitution: kv
: total revisions: 508;   selected revisions: 1
: description:
: ----------------------------
: revision 1.296
: date: 2001/01/14 10:11:10;  author: jhb;  state: Exp;  lines: +2 -2
: Remove I386_CPU from GENERIC.  Support for the 386 seriously pessimizes
: performance on other x86 processors.  Custom kernels can still be built
: that will run on the 386.
: =============================================================================


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