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Date:      Sun, 6 Aug 2000 23:27:23 -0400
From:      "Vladimir N. Silyaev" <vsilyaev@mindspring.com>
To:        Mark Ovens <marko@freebsd.org>
Cc:        emulation@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD/VMWare setup for dummies?
Message-ID:  <20000806232722.B3251@jupiter.delta.ny.us>
In-Reply-To: <20000806164837.A254@parish>; from marko@freebsd.org on Sun, Aug 06, 2000 at 04:48:38PM %2B0100
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On Sun, Aug 06, 2000 at 04:48:38PM +0100, Mark Ovens wrote:
> > > It's a K6-233 (original K6, not a -2 or -3)
> > 
> > I don't know. I personally don't have experience with new AMD's processors.
> > Try to update BIOS on motherboard to latest one, and try to compile
> > kernel without k6_mem.c file (just change it to dummy one with zero length).
> > 
> 
> That was it! I built a new kernel and now vmware starts :) 
What's exactly? Kernel recompiling with fresh source code, or truncating
k6_mem file?

> I am
> running my "real" Win95 and it goes through a lot of "New Hardware
> Detected" messages but hangs when it detects the PCI Bus. I can boot
> it in Safe Mode though.
You should load in Safe Mode, and create new hardware profile. At other
case you can easily broke you "real" configuration.

--
Vladimir 


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