Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 17:29:53 -0500 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Any ideas why we can't even boot a i386 ? Message-ID: <p05200f29ba84405d006d@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.20030227160443.jhb@FreeBSD.org> References: <XFMail.20030227160443.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
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At 4:04 PM -0500 2/27/03, John Baldwin wrote: >On 27-Feb-2003 Garance A Drosihn wrote: > > >> I'm thinking maybe the 5.x release CD's should include: >> GENERIC >> GENERIC +SMP > >I plan to make SMP kernels work on a UP machine like they do on all >of our other platforms thus obsoleting the need for this. Ooo. This will be highly appreciated for my collection of SMP boxes! > > GENERIC +VMWARE-friendly settings > >This might be useful. > >> GENERIC for i386 > >I doubt the usefulness of this. i386 kernels were just accidentally >broken for almost a month and a half without anyone noticing. >People wouldn't have noticed if phk@ hadn't asked for a volunteer >either. I386_CPU kernel compiles have been broken in the past for >rather long periods of time before being noticed as well. Well, doesn't that suggest that it would be GOOD if the release process itself had to build a GENERIC_I386 kernel? > > Would that add too much extra work for a 5.x release? > >You have access to the source, go for it. :) With cdboot, all you >need to do is create a /boot/vmware/ directory with kernel (and >maybe modules) in the ISO image and the user can break into the >loader and type 'boot vmware' to boot it. src/release/* awaits >your tested patches. Hmm. Well, right now I'm busy trying to make newsyslog more "admin-friendly", but I'll keep this pointer in mind. Thanks. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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