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Date:      Fri, 9 Jan 1998 16:50:44 -0600
From:      John Mastrolia  <jmastrol@mcs.net>
To:        "Richard M. Neswold" <rneswold@mcs.net>
Cc:        freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: K6 Problems...
Message-ID:  <19980109165044.36291@Mcs.Net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95.980109135237.20728A-100000@Jupiter.Mcs.Net>; from Richard M. Neswold on Fri, Jan 09, 1998 at 02:12:37PM -0600
References:  <Pine.BSF.3.95.980109135237.20728A-100000@Jupiter.Mcs.Net>

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I have an Asus p55t2p4 mother board (3.10 rev+ 3.2 volt ready) with a K6/233
running 2.2.5-RELEASE.  I upgraded, after FreeBSD was installed, from a P100 
and experienced no difficulty booting up the GENERIC kernel. My upgrades 
included the processor and scsi card.  I haven't compiled a custom kernel 
yet with the K6, but will get back to you if any problems surface.

BTW:  I don't use windows on this machine at all and it runs just fine :-)
-- 
jmastrol@mcs.net
  Politically, Fashionably, and Aerodynamically Incorrect.

On Fri, Jan 09, 1998 at 02:12:37PM -0600, Richard M. Neswold wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I recently upgraded my system to a K6/166. I booted with /kernel.GENERIC
> so that I could recompile my kernel with "i586_CPU" defined. The newly
> compiled kernel only booted as far as the probe messages. No error
> messages or panics occurred; the system just sat there after probing the
> hardware.
> 
> I rebooted to GENERIC again and tried a debugging kernel. It stopped at
> the same point in the booting process. Hitting the hot key brought me into
> the debugger. Since I'm a complete novice at using the kernel debugger,
> this route wasn't too enlightening.
> 
> I also tried recompiling a new GENERIC kernel (the one I was using was
> from last October.) The new GENERIC kernel stopped at the same point, too.
> 
> I've tried compiling kernels with various drivers removed. I've disabled
> drivers from the visual config editor. Nothing lets a 2.2.5 kernel boot
> (my working GENERIC kernel is 2.2.2-ish -- maybe even 2.2.1-ish!)
> 
> Windows95 works an this hardware, as does the old GENERIC kernel.
> 
> I have a K6 (stepping 9741 (?)), 64MB of SDRAM, Intel-TX chipset.
> 
> Any help or suggestions would be appreciated!
> 
>   Rich
> 
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