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From: "Kulraj Gurm (bosa.ca account)" <kulraj@bosa.ca>
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Subject: Re: FreeBSD (4.0) and AMD CPUs
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make sure you have the following line in your kernel config file :

cpu             I586_CPU

If this doesn't help there is something wrong with your hardware.
I have successfully run 4.x on K6, K6-2, K6-3, Duron and Athlon.
(even Cyrix - yuck)

Regards,

Kulraj Gurm


----- Original Message -----
From: "Stephan Untrieser" <stephan.untrieser@gmx.de>
To: <questions@FreeBSD.org>
Sent: Monday, April 30, 2001 3:43 AM
Subject: FreeBSD (4.0) and AMD CPUs


> Hi,
>
> since when FreeBSD supports Athlon/Duron CPU (integrated 2nd level
> cache)?
> I'm using an `germanized´ Distribution based uppon FreeBSD 4.0
> ("Lehmanns CD-ROM Edition", perhaps you know)
>
> booting with an earlier installation (on a K6/233 - quite old now)
> stopped with panic: cpu class not supported (or something like that - i
> wouldn't provoke it any more because CtrlAltDel doesn't work in this
> state an the reset button is `far away´ ...).
>
> Booting from CD 01 also resulted in "System halted" message after few
> init steps (I think that was my bootloader and the first breath of the
> FreeBSD loader, shortly after the point "press Enter to boot immediatly"
> ... `or enjoy with FORTH´ [ ;) ])
>
> May be there is a patch fix this with 4.0 or I have to upgrade to 4.2 or
> so, please let me know. Thanks.
>
> Best regards
> Stephan Untrieser
>
>
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