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Date:      Thu, 14 Mar 2002 02:23:15 -0800
From:      Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com>
To:        Ramses van Pinxteren <ramses.van.pinxteren@cmg.nl>
Cc:        "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Compiling kernel for AMD processor
Message-ID:  <3C907A13.30908@owt.com>
References:  <395ABDBC0952D211BB2A00104BB3F93906A1AC23@nl-amv-mail03.cmg.nl>

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Ramses van Pinxteren wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I have a server with an AMD processor. When I compile a kernel with i386 as
> processor type (or anything up) then the kernel will not boot once it is
> installed. It compliles brilliantly that is the odd thing...


You are cross compiling and gcc does a good job on that.


> 
> What processor type should I select??


Dmesg will tell you in the first few lines. I have a couple of K7's 
and a couple of 1600+ XPs. They all think they are 686s. The rest of 
the AMD's  think they are 486's.

Kent

-- 
Kent Stewart
Richland, WA

http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html


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