From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 7 00:34:54 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D92410656D1 for ; Tue, 7 Aug 2012 00:34:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kudzu@tenebras.com) Received: from mail-we0-f182.google.com (mail-we0-f182.google.com [74.125.82.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F04FB8FC12 for ; Tue, 7 Aug 2012 00:34:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: by weyx56 with SMTP id x56so2948588wey.13 for ; Mon, 06 Aug 2012 17:34:53 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=google.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:x-gm-message-state; bh=t+hPHSfhzgRuQ9uZ4QFsJSt5SWCC3cyXE88KkK6Gl58=; b=XAogrrZ0cabMpTrc8UhM3Wcf1ne7G0ew0DspHb2xFCctkgsF17BNNv84YdoY0ELF8I hrhkMH8HG67dN4pA0m/NFzsZ78FdCiB21i/eMmzXXUIIy3TNBwgUyWSkBpkHlUQwzhx2 gHseNxjBVv9WG+cRyx0bXpn2ZLzkYP2hO45VjWO2jjVoFf50Auh9kuL6osCiIM5GQCKT uWsamvO/7FaSziugBrKa6B1QirG6zg3Rrhrnd3Sy0VHvmB816mus37Zm5c/YW+Glce1F mU/EEO+5NfILCrIIFX11U1uZeqPof9y5x1jkRRhymnu7JjyWcCKv1Tmo9jBmRky/PMet c6WA== MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.180.78.5 with SMTP id x5mr22624186wiw.13.1344299693035; Mon, 06 Aug 2012 17:34:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.223.171.71 with HTTP; Mon, 6 Aug 2012 17:34:52 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <1344297184.74951.YahooMailClassic@web121202.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> References: <1344297184.74951.YahooMailClassic@web121202.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2012 17:34:52 -0700 Message-ID: From: Michael Sierchio To: Jason Usher X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQkgElPGHicXc/XZKgwS2UgmqpjHlnANhxRXzELSkJQQie9pGBvhyTAivpB2hJEWROuxuIvU Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why can't I set my cpu type in kernel config ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2012 00:34:54 -0000 make LINT vi LINT On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 4:53 PM, Jason Usher wrote: > I am installing 8.3-RELEASE on an old 900mhz pentium laptop ... it's an > i686 CPU. > > By default, GENERIC has "HAMMER" as the cpu, and that isn't working. So I > tried both: > > cpu I586_CPU > > and: > > cpu I686_CPU > > (I also tried them both lowercase, like i686_cpu) > > But all of these fail: > > GENERIC: unknown option "I586_CPU" > > How can I set 586/686 (you're supposed to set both) in my kernel conf ? > > You're sure it's an i686? Do you have the amd64 distribution, or i386? If the former, then in /usr/src/sys/amd64/conf... # make LINT # vi LINT cpu HAMMER and that's all she wrote. There are some 32-bit compatibility options: options COMPAT_FREEBSD32 options COMPAT_LINUX32