From owner-freebsd-newbies Sat Sep 29 11:45: 6 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from andrsn.stanford.edu (andrsn.Stanford.EDU [171.66.112.163]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F52637B40B for ; Sat, 29 Sep 2001 11:45:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (andrsn@localhost.stanford.edu [127.0.0.1]) by andrsn.stanford.edu (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id LAA54565; Sat, 29 Sep 2001 11:40:49 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2001 11:40:49 -0700 (PDT) From: Annelise Anderson To: Paul Lopez Cc: freeBSD Newbies Subject: Re: Recompiling kernel for Cyrix 6x86 In-Reply-To: <002101c148a7$c9aab230$0100a8c0@pc1> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sat, 29 Sep 2001, Paul Lopez wrote: > I have a Cyrix 6x86 and was wondering if i could compile a kernel that identifies the cpu correctly. I always thought 6x86 was equivalent to a pentium (aka I586_CPU), but when the kernel loads, it hangs.... (unidentified cpu or something)... > > Any hints would be appreciated, > > Thanks, > Paul. > Boot kernel.GENERIC, which is on your hard drive by default, and see what it found, with dmesg | grep CPU. Then include that one in the kernel. Annelise -- Annelise Anderson Author of: FreeBSD: An Open-Source Operating System for Your PC Available from: mall.daemonnews.org and amazon.com Book Website: http://www.bittreepress.com/FreeBSD/introbook/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message