Date: Wed, 10 Sep 1997 21:26:54 +0400 From: marck@gw.rinet.ru (Dmitry Morozovsky) To: secrj@econ.uib.no (Ronny Jordalen) Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: IBM/Cyrix PR200+ Message-ID: <199709101726.VAA15030@gw.rinet.ru>
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In article <freebsd.hardware/19970910153802.17922@econ.uib.no> you wrote: > > Yesterday i've set up 2.2.2-R on IBM (Cyrix) PR200+ and was very surprized > > when it were recognized as 486DX (rather quick, though -- kernel compile in > > less than 3.5 mins on IDE :) > > > That's strange... I myself just installed FreeBSD on a machine running the > same CPU, and FreeBSD identified it as Pentium Pro class processor. I first > tried setting Cpu to 486-type too, as Windows does infact recognize it as > a 486. But then kernel would panic. Strange for me too -- but that's it, 486DX with clock rate over 1GHz :) > > So, my question: is there any "red points" in guidelines for setting up > > FreeBSD on such system? (MB is ASUS T2P4, PIO4 IDE disk) > Don't really know. My installation went flawlessly, apart from the above > mentioned problem. I have the 2,5x66 version of the CPU btw, running off > an Asus TX97-E MB. And running 2.2.2 as well. My too -- however, i suppose that Pentium-oriented copy/zero block procedures don't work. > > Happy FreeBSDing :))) > Aren't we always? :-) I feel high hopes to that ;-) -- Sincerely, D.Marck ======================================================================== === D.Marck --- Dmitry Morozovsky --- marck@rinet.ru --- Wild Woozle === ========================================================================
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