From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Sep 10 10:29:28 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id KAA14878 for hardware-outgoing; Wed, 10 Sep 1997 10:29:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gw.rinet.ru (gw.rinet.ru [195.54.192.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id KAA14869 for ; Wed, 10 Sep 1997 10:29:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: by gw.rinet.ru id VAA15030; (8.6.11/vak/1.9) Wed, 10 Sep 1997 21:26:54 +0400 Date: Wed, 10 Sep 1997 21:26:54 +0400 From: marck@gw.rinet.ru (Dmitry Morozovsky) Message-Id: <199709101726.VAA15030@gw.rinet.ru> To: secrj@econ.uib.no (Ronny Jordalen) CC: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: IBM/Cyrix PR200+ Newsgroups: freebsd.hardware X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In article you wrote: > > Yesterday i've set up 2.2.2-R on IBM (Cyrix) PR200+ and was very surprized > > when it were recognized as 486DX (rather quick, though -- kernel compile in > > less than 3.5 mins on IDE :) > > > That's strange... I myself just installed FreeBSD on a machine running the > same CPU, and FreeBSD identified it as Pentium Pro class processor. I first > tried setting Cpu to 486-type too, as Windows does infact recognize it as > a 486. But then kernel would panic. Strange for me too -- but that's it, 486DX with clock rate over 1GHz :) > > So, my question: is there any "red points" in guidelines for setting up > > FreeBSD on such system? (MB is ASUS T2P4, PIO4 IDE disk) > Don't really know. My installation went flawlessly, apart from the above > mentioned problem. I have the 2,5x66 version of the CPU btw, running off > an Asus TX97-E MB. And running 2.2.2 as well. My too -- however, i suppose that Pentium-oriented copy/zero block procedures don't work. > > Happy FreeBSDing :))) > Aren't we always? :-) I feel high hopes to that ;-) -- Sincerely, D.Marck ======================================================================== === D.Marck --- Dmitry Morozovsky --- marck@rinet.ru --- Wild Woozle === ========================================================================