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Date:      Fri, 26 Feb 1999 10:52:08 +1030
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        Markus Grundmann <grundmann@s2m.net>, "'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG'" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: A little problem with FreeBSD 3.0 RELEASE
Message-ID:  <19990226105208.D431@lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <1168512A0F6DD211A05000A0C941F9A10151C8@mail.ip-lan.de>; from Markus Grundmann on Tue, Feb 23, 1999 at 11:54:21PM %2B0100
References:  <1168512A0F6DD211A05000A0C941F9A10151C8@mail.ip-lan.de>

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On Tuesday, 23 February 1999 at 23:54:21 +0100, Markus Grundmann wrote:
> This is my webserver on a asus motherboard and a AMD K6-2 400 cpu
> installed.  The bsd kernel is compiled for a 586 processor serie. On
> my dual processor system (based on intel pentium ii processors) the
> bsd tty reports at the login screen:
>
> FreeBSD/i386 (host.domain.org) (ttyxx)
>
> login:
>
> Where is the problem? Can FreeBSD not determine the platform on
> running it?!

Sure:

$ sysctl hw.model
hw.model: AMD-K6tm w/ multimedia extensions
$ uname -a
FreeBSD freebie.lemis.com 4.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT #132: Thu Feb 25 14:41:17 CST 1999     grog@freebie.lemis.com:/T/src/FREEBIE/src/sys/compile/FREEBIE  i386

> The kernel reports at ipl : a AMD K6-CPU (586 cpu-class serie) is installed.

You're from an IBM background, are you?  Here we call it booting, not
IPL.

> The CPUID 0x58c of AMD cpu is not entered in the identcpu.h (e.g.) source
> file. It thats the problem?

No, there is no problem.

> What can i do?  The original generic kernel from the cdrom have the same
> problem.

You haven't really said what you want, but I'm assuming that you want
it to say FreeBSD/AMD-K6 instead of FreeBSD/i386.  You can do that:
you have all the source.  The i386 in the text refers to the
architecture, not the processor.

Greg
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