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Date:      Wed, 29 May 1996 14:19:54 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu>
To:        Brandon Gillespie <brandon@tombstone.sunrem.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: panic in FreeBSD-STABLE kernel..
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.960529141857.292C-100000@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960529094010.19226A-100000@tombstone.sunrem.com>

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On Wed, 29 May 1996, Brandon Gillespie wrote:

> I just upgraded my system to FreeBSD-STABLE, then I recompiled the kernel.
> For the config I simply copied GENERIC and commented out all but 'cpu 
> "I586_CPU"' for the CPU classes, and I changed the ident respectively.  
> Everything else was by the book (the handbook, to be exact).  However, 
> when I reboot the machine it boots the kernel to the point where it 
> should probe the devices, and instead it panics on 'Unknown CPU class'.  
> The system is a Cyrix 6x86 150+, and has run the 2.1-R kernel just fine...

Look at the dmesg -- what did the kernel detect your CPU as?

I'd leave the 486 in there for good measure, especially on non-intel 
hardware.

Make sure you don't comment the 'i386' line.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major




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