Date: Sun, 18 May 2003 00:50:38 -0500 (CDT) From: Eduardo Viruena Silva <mrspock@esfm.ipn.mx> To: Paul Chvostek <paul@it.ca> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 5.0-RELEASE on an 80386 cpu? Message-ID: <20030518004410.X84624@Gina.esfm.ipn.mx> In-Reply-To: <20030518011908.A34288@mail.it.ca> References: <20030518011908.A34288@mail.it.ca>
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On Sun, 18 May 2003, Paul Chvostek wrote: > > I have a gateway router that is an Intel 80386 with a Cyrix Automath > MPU. The unit is in a slimline (4" high) case and has four ISA Ethernet > cards for which I don't have configuration software (but do have IRQ and > such). The unit is nicely nestled on a shelf with no room to spare and > only enough cable slack for the case to be opened enough to get at the > hard disk ... which recently suffered a head crash. > > I can't complain -- this box was running 2.2.6 until I upgraded it to > 4.0-RELEASE, and it's been running 24/7 since then. (1999 was it?) > > But now, I need to install an operating system on a new disk. Obviously > it will be alot of (hopefully unnecessary) work to upgrade the hardware, > but when I boot 5.0-RELEASE floppies, I get a nasty panic after mfsroot > goes in, finishing up with "BTX halted". take care, 386 processor is no longer supported by the generic kernel. http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.0R/relnotes-i386.html 2.1.1 Processor/Motherboard Support > > I'm not sure if this a hardware issue, or perhaps an indication that 386 > compatibility has become a non-issue for most folks. Is the install > floppy trying to do something that only became possible in later CPUs? > If so, will it be possible for me to compile and generate a set of boot > floppies that are 386-compatible, or is there some alternate install > process I could follow? And if not, would my posting the wacky > collection of register values help someone more clueful help me? I believe you have to extract that disk, install FreeBSD using a newer machine, recompile the kernel adding: cpu I386_CPU and erase any other cpu specification. But I have never done it and I don't have a 386 to check it out. > > Thanks. ;-) > > -- > Paul Chvostek <paul@it.ca> > Operations / Abuse / Whatever > it.canada, hosting and development http://www.it.ca/ > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > - ______ _ * / /###\ / \ __ /\ /\ * / ./#### \ * \__|_/ | | / \/ \ | b#####| * _ | __ | | __ = .. \____ \ \_\#####/ / \| / \ | | /\_\/ = \_| * \___\###/ * \_/\_/\__/\__\/_/\__/ = \______/ _ | |
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