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Date:      Mon, 13 Mar 2000 10:40:13 -0600
From:      "Hawk" <hawk76@ev1.net>
To:        <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org>, <freebsd-newbie@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        <hou-freebsd@cityscope.net>
Subject:   Timecounter frequency error on boot
Message-ID:  <00b101bf8d0a$e128cc80$067ea8c0@drakenetworks.yi.org>

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Hello all,

    When I boot my system I get a timecounter error (/kernel: Timecounter
"i8254"  frequency 1193182 Hz) right when it starts to boot. I have an AMD
K6-II 200Mzh processor on an Intel board (think it's a shuttle but not
sure). It's and AT board with a 250 Watt power supply and only has an ISA
modem (56k not sure of the brand), LinkSys ISA PnP combo NIC card and an ISA
1 meg video card. Everything works and the system and I don't appear to be
having any problems, but this error concerns me. I've installed FreeBSD on
this system before with the same hardware only changed the Case and a Hard
drive (updated from a 500 Meg to a 4.3 Gig), and never had this error
before. Any Ideas on what could be causing this.

Here's what is the boot section from the message log.

/kernel: Copyright (c) 1992-1999 FreeBSD Inc.
/kernel: Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993
/kernel: The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
/kernel: FreeBSD 3.4-RELEASE #0: Mon Dec 20 06:54:39 GMT 1999
/kernel: jkh@time.cdrom.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/GENERIC
/kernel: Timecounter "i8254"  frequency 1193182 Hz
/kernel: CPU: AMD-K6tm w/ multimedia extensions (199.43-MHz 586-class CPU)
/kernel: Origin = "AuthenticAMD"  Id = 0x561  Stepping = 1
/kernel: Features=0x8001bf<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,MCE,CX8,MMX>
/kernel: AMD Features=0x400<<b10>>
/kernel: real memory  = 33554432 (32768K bytes)

here's the unamed -a output..
FreeBSD 3.4-RELEASE FreeBSD 3.4-RELEASE #0: Mon Dec 20 06:54:39 GMT 1999
    jkh@time.cdrom.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/GENERIC  i386



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