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From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert)
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Subject: Re: More Intel bugs (fwd)
To: sef@kithrup.com (Sean Eric Fagan)
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> Comments, anyone?
> 
> From: tege@cygnus.com (Torbjorn Granlund)
> Subject: More Intel bugs
> Date: 14 Mar 1995 05:31:36 -0800
> 
> I tried to install FreeBSD 2.0 on a new Intel 486DX4 system, but the kernel
> keeps getting "Fatal trap 1: privileged instruction fault while in kernel
> mode".
> 
> Why?  Because of bugs in the DX4 stepping 0, accorig to a knowledgeable
> source.
> 
> Great.  I own two such CPUs.

There was (just barely) a posting on the news group regarding a similar
problem on a non-DX4 gateway box (486/33).

Clearly, the problem is elsewhere.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@cs.weber.edu
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