From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Mar 1 15:20:49 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0ACFD37B405 for ; Sat, 1 Mar 2003 15:20:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from blueyonder.co.uk (pcow058o.blueyonder.co.uk [195.188.53.98]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C0B0F43FBF for ; Sat, 1 Mar 2003 15:20:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jfm@blueyonder.co.uk) Received: from lexx ([62.31.198.203]) by blueyonder.co.uk with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.757.75); Sat, 1 Mar 2003 23:20:46 +0000 From: John Murphy To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: TI486dx100 any chance of FreeBSD on these? Date: Sat, 01 Mar 2003 23:20:45 +0000 Organization: poor Reply-To: jfm@blueyonder.co.uk Message-ID: X-Mailer: Forte Agent 1.9/32.560 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I've been given some old but sturdy TI486dx100 Ali chip set pcs on which = I'd like to run any version of FreeBSD. NetBSD installs and runs, but Free = fatal traps with 'privileged instruction fault while in kernel mode' on = everything I've tried. Is there any kind of FreeBSD kernel I could build (on another machine) = that would run? Is this just bad hardware and not worth bothering with? Thanks John. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message