From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Jan 27 19:40:45 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id TAA14259 for chat-outgoing; Mon, 27 Jan 1997 19:40:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from relay.nuxi.com (nuxi.ucdavis.edu [128.120.37.176]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id TAA14254 for ; Mon, 27 Jan 1997 19:40:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (reqd-018.ucdavis.edu [128.120.251.138]) by relay.nuxi.com (8.7.6/8.6.12) with ESMTP id TAA16263 for ; Mon, 27 Jan 1997 19:40:52 -0800 (PST) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.8.4/8.7.3) id TAA01003; Mon, 27 Jan 1997 19:40:33 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Mon, 27 Jan 1997 19:40:33 -0800 From: obrien@dragon.cs.ucdavis.edu (David O'Brien) To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 2.2-B finds a i286 :-/ References: X-Mailer: Mutt 0.57-PL4 Mime-Version: 1.0 Reply-To: deobrien@ucdavis.edu Organization: The NUXI *BSD group X-PGP-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Keyid: 34F9F9D5 In-Reply-To: ; from J Wunsch on Jan 27, 1997 22:14:05 +0100 Sender: owner-chat@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk J Wunsch writes: > As Philippe Regnauld wrote: > > > Just recompiled a kernel for a DX-2/50 and it panics on boot with: > > > > CPU: i486 DX2 (286-class CPU) > > Genuine Intel Id=0x435 stepping=5 > > CPU class not configured > Hmm, FreeBSD doesn't run on 286-class CPUs, AFAIK. :-)) I guess someone forgot to tell that "286" that. :-) Maybe I should update the handbook where I wrote that a 286 didn't have what it took to run FreeBSD... -- -- David (obrien@NUXI.com -or- obrien@FreeBSD.org)