From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Apr 7 22:33:12 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: chat@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7EAD816A401 for ; Sat, 7 Apr 2007 22:33:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from emailrob@emailrob.com) Received: from green.dls.net (green.dls.net [209.242.20.70]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 605DE13C45B for ; Sat, 7 Apr 2007 22:33:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from emailrob@emailrob.com) Received: from emailrob.com (216-145-235-166.rev.dls.net [216.145.235.166]) by green.dls.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 17BC6411EA5 for ; Sat, 7 Apr 2007 17:05:32 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <46180799.5070400@emailrob.com> Date: Sat, 07 Apr 2007 22:05:29 +0100 From: spellberg_robert User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20030208 Netscape/7.02 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: chat@freebsd.org References: <46180A09.5020003@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Subject: Re: what can i do with a 486? X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 07 Apr 2007 22:33:12 -0000 i've been following this because i have a compaq sitting on a closet shelf. mine has 40 megs of ram, so hope springs eternal [ just to prove i can really do it ]. i've let people more expert than me answer first, but i've played around with kernel tweaking and had some success, so i'll throw in my $0.02. take out absolutely --everything-- not related to the hard_drive, the keyboard and the crt, even though there are other things that are important, like networking. if you can't get this to come up, it may be time for a good scotch and some wistful memories. kill the remaining pseudo_devices. do you need kbdmux in the console ? ADAPTIVE_GIANT ? PREEMPTION ? INET ? UFS_ACL ? SCSI_DELAY ? KBD_INSTALL_CDEV ? you get the idea. once you get it working, you can always add things back, one at a time. when it fails, you know your limit. i do admire your stick_to_it_iveness. but, remember, new two_year old technology is pretty cheap, when you can find it. can't promise this will work. hope it helps. rob deeptech71@gmail.com wrote: > This is so goddamn. I've disabled almost everything in the kernel and > the 486 still wont boot! > > OK, forget about the router, just get FreeBSD running on it! Any > suggestions?