Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 22:01:31 -0700 (MST) From: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> To: drosih@rpi.edu Cc: ru@FreeBSD.ORG, geoffrey@reptiles.org, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Any ideas why we can't even boot a i386 ? Message-ID: <20030227.220131.00002520.imp@bsdimp.com> In-Reply-To: <p05200f25ba841e941541@[128.113.24.47]> References: <20030227052926.G28626-100000@iguana.reptiles.org> <20030227112755.GC39346@sunbay.com> <p05200f25ba841e941541@[128.113.24.47]>
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Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> writes:
: I'm thinking maybe the 5.x release CD's should include:
: GENERIC
: GENERIC +SMP
: GENERIC +VMWARE-friendly settings
: GENERIC for i386
:
: Would that add too much extra work for a 5.x release?
Not to start *that* bikeshed again, but even if you had a GENERIC for
i386, sysinstall is too pigdogish to have any hope of running on the
memory that one finds on a real 386.
Warner
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