From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 20 05:02:54 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id FAA12605 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 20 Mar 1997 05:02:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from chain-work.iafrica.com (chain-work.iafrica.com [196.31.1.66]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id FAA12596 for ; Thu, 20 Mar 1997 05:02:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (khetan@localhost) by chain-work.iafrica.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id PAA01784; Thu, 20 Mar 1997 15:02:22 +0200 (SAT) Date: Thu, 20 Mar 1997 15:02:21 +0200 (SAT) From: Khetan Gajjar To: Duncan Orthner cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What CPU_type for Cyrix 686 166+? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: X-Alternate-Address: gjjkhe01@sonnenberg.uct.ac.za X-PGP-Fingerprint: FF F9 1C B8 39 06 1E CD 60 4C E8 57 2D A3 46 E7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 19 Mar 1997, Duncan Orthner wrote: > > Hi, I tried compiling a kernel w/ "I686_CPU" but it wouldn't boot. >The only thing I could get it to recognize is a 486! Is there another >solution to this? Nope. You have to live with it as a "486" - but it's still pretty darn fast! --- Khetan Gajjar [ http://www.iafrica.com/~khetan] I'm a FreeBSD User! [ http://www.freebsd.org ] PGP Key [finger khetan@chain.iafrica.com] UUNet Internet Africa [0800-030-002 & help@iafrica.com]