Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2003 10:37:01 -0400 (EDT) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@berklix.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Anyone seen 4.8-RELEASE running on a real 386 (not 486 586 etc) ? Message-ID: <XFMail.20030414103701.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <200304140850.h3E8ohD94528@flip.jhs.private>
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On 14-Apr-2003 Julian H. Stacey wrote: > Erik Trulsson wrote: >> My patch will not break anything. >> John Baldwin has already committed my patch to the 4-stable branch. >> His commit message (quoted below) explains what the problem was and why >> my patch is not really the proper fix but will work. > > Thanks, good to know its fixed for 4.X. > ( Any comment on 5 BTW ? ) 5 doesn't have this problem but for different reasons. In 5.x, you have to build a custom kernel to get 386 support. 5.x does not support 80386 machines out of the box. Installing a 5.x release on a 80386 is not too difficult if you have 5.x installed on an existing machine. You just need to build a 80386 kernel and replace the kernel.gz on kern.flp. -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/
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