From owner-freebsd-current Thu Feb 27 20: 4:32 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A76937B401; Thu, 27 Feb 2003 20:04:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from ns1.xcllnt.net (209-128-86-226.bayarea.net [209.128.86.226]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 384DF43F75; Thu, 27 Feb 2003 20:04:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marcel@xcllnt.net) Received: from athlon.pn.xcllnt.net (athlon.pn.xcllnt.net [192.168.4.3]) by ns1.xcllnt.net (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h1S44U1o068809; Thu, 27 Feb 2003 20:04:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marcel@piii.pn.xcllnt.net) Received: from athlon.pn.xcllnt.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by athlon.pn.xcllnt.net (8.12.7/8.12.7) with ESMTP id h1S44Tse000881; Thu, 27 Feb 2003 20:04:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marcel@athlon.pn.xcllnt.net) Received: (from marcel@localhost) by athlon.pn.xcllnt.net (8.12.7/8.12.7/Submit) id h1S44TDS000880; Thu, 27 Feb 2003 20:04:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marcel) Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 20:04:29 -0800 From: Marcel Moolenaar To: Garance A Drosihn Cc: John Baldwin , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Any ideas why we can't even boot a i386 ? Message-ID: <20030228040429.GA813@athlon.pn.xcllnt.net> References: <20030227235558.GA1596@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.3i Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 09:38:18PM -0500, Garance A Drosihn wrote: > > Okay, that also makes good sense. But if that is true, then maybe > we should officially tell our users that they *must* stay with the > 4.x-series if they are running 386 hardware. Something like that, yes. I think the important part is setting expectations right. People should not expect 5.x to run on 80386, so that casual users don't waste their time. People who really know what they are doing can probably get it to work and I think that fixes, within reason, are acceptable as well... -- Marcel Moolenaar USPA: A-39004 marcel@xcllnt.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message