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Date:      Wed, 21 Apr 1999 10:36:30 +091800
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        "Pavel V. Antipov" <pavel@ikar.elect.ru>
Cc:        Jilani Khaldi <delphi@agata.clio.it>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Kernel Panic! Me too.
Message-ID:  <19990421103630.C53374@freebie.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990420191110.1163F-100000@ikar.elect.ru>; from Pavel V. Antipov on Tue, Apr 20, 1999 at 07:13:34PM %2B0400
References:  <371C8E2D.DE389C47@agata.clio.it> <Pine.BSF.3.96.990420191110.1163F-100000@ikar.elect.ru>

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On Tuesday, 20 April 1999 at 19:13:34 +0400, Pavel V. Antipov wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Apr 1999, Jilani Khaldi wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>> I have a pentium Celetron 333 MHZ, with 128 MB of RAM, and 6 GB of HD. I
>> want to substitute NT. I have installed on it FreeBSD 3.1 (release
>> version) and built the kernel choosing I586 as CPU. Now, when FreeBSD
>> starts, I see: kernel panic, press any key to reboot.

If you look more carefully, you'll see more.  It's trying to tell you
something.

>> And every time the same story. It can't go on. Do I have to
>> reinstall it again? Or there is something to save from the last
>> installation? And if I have to reinstall again, I don't want to
>> have the generic kernel, but another optimized for my machine.
>>
>> Thanks.
>
> 1. boot with generic kernel or reinstall FreeBSD

There's no good reason to reinstall.  Boot with the GENERIC kernel and
rebuild the kernel with the correct configuration.

> 2. adjust your kernel but DON'T TOUCH the "cpu" entries

In this case, it'll be fine, as long as you keep the I686 entry.

Greg
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