Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 11:49:31 -0700 From: John Nielsen <lists@jnielsen.net> To: questions@freebsd.org Cc: mobile@freebsd.org Subject: installkernel signal 4 on Thinkpad 365XD Message-ID: <200403251149.31936.lists@jnielsen.net>
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I'm trying to get FreeBSD 5.2.1 going on an older thinkpad laptop. The install went smoothly from floppy and 5.2.1-RELEASE CD. Now I'm trying to do an installkernel and installworld from an NFS mount on my main machine. I did the buildworld and buildkernel on the faster machine, with these make flags on the command line: MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX=/usr/obj/586 KERNCONF=TP365XD CPUTYPE=i586 When I try to do an installkernel and/or installworld, install crashes with signal 4. If I'm not mistaken, signal 4 is an illegal instruction. What could be going on here? I've used this procedure on other (somewhat newer) 586-class machines without problems. Is this a bug, am I doing something wrong, or is the CPU in this laptop not fully 586-compatible? Dmesg (from the currently installed GENERIC kernel) says: CPU: Pentium/P54C (119.78-MHz 586-class CPU) Should I try CPUTYPE=i486? What else can I do to track this down? Any input appreciated. Please CC me. JN
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