From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 7 18:28:43 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (adsl-63-207-60-43.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [63.207.60.43]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 11E6C37B404 for ; Tue, 7 May 2002 18:28:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 24CB066DC8; Tue, 7 May 2002 18:28:31 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 7 May 2002 18:28:30 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway To: Chris Schaller Cc: Kris Kennaway , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: freebsd 4.5-stable and F00F-Bug Message-ID: <20020507182830.A61098@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <004a01c1f5db$c966b940$0a00a8c0@artoc.de> <20020507131911.B53143@xor.obsecurity.org> <003c01c1f609$dd3f5b60$0a00a8c0@artoc.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="ZPt4rx8FFjLCG7dd" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <003c01c1f609$dd3f5b60$0a00a8c0@artoc.de>; from cs-lists@bsdguru.de on Tue, May 07, 2002 at 10:57:55PM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --ZPt4rx8FFjLCG7dd Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, May 07, 2002 at 10:57:55PM +0200, Chris Schaller wrote: >=20 > >What does this have to do with the F00F bug? >=20 > The F00F-Bug workaround does have to be enabled in the kernel! Yes, but what does that have to do with the stated problem (not being able to boot the install kernel)? I suspect you are confused about the actual nature and impact of the "F00F bug". > The kernel of the 4.5 stable release seems to come along without that > workaround enabled :-( The install kernel does, because it's not needed. It's included in the GENERIC kernel that is installed by the installation process, and which you will boot from when you run your system. > Thanks to Jan Grant it works this way: > Yeah, I had something similar with an older Pentium (+ MMX). If you > want to follow this up, directing details of any error messages to > -stable would help. >=20 > By the way, I booted using the 4.4-RELEASE kern.flp and used a 4.5 > mfsroot. That is not supported. Kris --ZPt4rx8FFjLCG7dd Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE82H8+Wry0BWjoQKURAuO2AKCf2y6lEjtl6ktXODvoPgTIan4bUwCg8qvm Hil5NNZ1txqaZKr+SP8IXjo= =WWoS -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --ZPt4rx8FFjLCG7dd-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message