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From: Christopher Michaels <ChrisMic@clientlogic.com>
To: "'Rausis, Rhyan'" <rhyan.rausis@lodgenet.com>
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Subject: RE: Kernel problems...
Date: Thu, 1 Jul 1999 15:57:22 -0400 
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They do help in the general performance of the CPU, they should not make any
difference at all as to what the kernel sees as the CPU type.

-Chris

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Rausis, Rhyan [SMTP:rhyan.rausis@lodgenet.com]
> Sent:	Thursday, July 01, 1999 3:49 PM
> To:	Christopher Michaels
> Subject:	RE: Kernel problems...
> 
> No reason to be sorry Chris.  I am just glad there is someone out there
> who
> can help.  I will take your suggestion and add in CPU's until I find one
> that works.
> 
> One last question.  There are tons of options relating to Cyrix CPU's.  Do
> you suppose one of these might help?  
> 
> Thanks so much for your assistance.
> 
> Rhyan
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christopher Michaels [mailto:ChrisMic@clientlogic.com]
> Sent: Thursday, July 01, 1999 2:48 PM
> To: Rausis, Rhyan
> Cc: FreeBSD Questions (E-mail)
> Subject: RE: Kernel problems...
> 
> 
> Ok, sorry.  You could try adding cpu classes until it starts booting.
> Maybe
> there's a quirk/bug related to Cyrix cpu's.
> 
> I used to have a cyrix in the past, and don't remember any such bug
> though.
> 
> -Chris
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From:	Rausis, Rhyan [SMTP:rhyan.rausis@lodgenet.com]
> > Sent:	Thursday, July 01, 1999 3:43 PM
> > To:	Christopher Michaels
> > Subject:	RE: Kernel problems...
> > 
> > Unfortunately that was what I did to find out what to use as the CPU
> > setting
> > in the first place.  Dmesg detects it as an "i586" so that's what I
> used.
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Christopher Michaels [mailto:ChrisMic@clientlogic.com]
> > Sent: Thursday, July 01, 1999 2:34 PM
> > To: Rausis, Rhyan; freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> > Subject: RE: Kernel problems...
> > 
> > 
> > Try leaving in all the CPU classes and that should let it boot back up.
> > Then take a look at the dmesg output to see what FreeBSD is detecting
> your
> > CPU as.
> > 
> > THEN, change your kernel config file to remove the unneeded CPU classes.
> > 
> > -Chris
> > 
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From:	Rausis, Rhyan [SMTP:rhyan.rausis@lodgenet.com]
> > > Sent:	Thursday, July 01, 1999 3:29 PM
> > > To:	freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> > > Subject:	Kernel problems...
> > > 
> > > I am trying to run a custom kernel and when I boot to it I get the
> > > following
> > > error.
> > > 
> > > 	 Panic: CPU class not configured
> > > 
> > > I can't send my config file because it is at home and I am at work.  I
> > can
> > > tell you that I have a Cyrix P150+ CPU.  I have the processor type
> > > specified
> > > as "i586".  Is there another option I must include?  There is a lot of
> > > other
> > > options for the Cyrix listed in the LINT file.  Would one of these
> help
> > my
> > > problem?  I noticed also that it is recommended that a FPU emulator be
> > run
> > > if you have anything but an Intel chip.  Could this be the problem?
> Any
> > > and
> > > all help is of course greatly appreciated.
> > > 
> > > Rhyan Rausis
> > > 
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> > > Enterprise Data Systems Analyst
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> > > 
> > > 
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