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 > Does anyone know why FreeBSD 5.x would not run on a 386SX/387SX
 > combination?  I realise the performance would be very poor but I
 > don't see any reason why it wouldn't work at all.
 >
 > Peter

  If you're trying to use a 80386 you need to add:
cpu 	I386_CPU
to your kernel config and remove any other IX86_cpu options.
This is in UPDATING dated 20010116.