From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 29 14:18:10 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id OAA08057 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 29 May 1996 14:18:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu (riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.164]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA08045 for ; Wed, 29 May 1996 14:18:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from dwhite@localhost) by riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id OAA00359; Wed, 29 May 1996 14:19:54 -0700 Date: Wed, 29 May 1996 14:19:54 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Brandon Gillespie cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: panic in FreeBSD-STABLE kernel.. In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 29 May 1996, Brandon Gillespie wrote: > I just upgraded my system to FreeBSD-STABLE, then I recompiled the kernel. > For the config I simply copied GENERIC and commented out all but 'cpu > "I586_CPU"' for the CPU classes, and I changed the ident respectively. > Everything else was by the book (the handbook, to be exact). However, > when I reboot the machine it boots the kernel to the point where it > should probe the devices, and instead it panics on 'Unknown CPU class'. > The system is a Cyrix 6x86 150+, and has run the 2.1-R kernel just fine... Look at the dmesg -- what did the kernel detect your CPU as? I'd leave the 486 in there for good measure, especially on non-intel hardware. Make sure you don't comment the 'i386' line. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major