From owner-freebsd-current Thu Feb 27 21: 2:26 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 5714237B401; Thu, 27 Feb 2003 21:02:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from harmony.village.org (rover.bsdimp.com [204.144.255.66]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 614E943FBD; Thu, 27 Feb 2003 21:02:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from imp@bsdimp.com) Received: from localhost (warner@rover2.village.org [10.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.12.6/8.12.3) with ESMTP id h1S52M3Y022661; Thu, 27 Feb 2003 22:02:22 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from imp@bsdimp.com) Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 22:01:31 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <20030227.220131.00002520.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 ? From: "M. Warner Losh" In-Reply-To: References: <20030227052926.G28626-100000@iguana.reptiles.org> <20030227112755.GC39346@sunbay.com> X-Mailer: Mew version 2.1 on Emacs 21.2 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 In message: Garance A Drosihn 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message