From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 14 2:23:25 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from rutger.owt.com (rutger.owt.com [204.118.6.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C88A37B402 for ; Thu, 14 Mar 2002 02:23:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from owt.com (owt-207-41-94-232.owt.com [207.41.94.232]) by rutger.owt.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id CAA24003; Thu, 14 Mar 2002 02:23:17 -0800 Message-ID: <3C907A13.30908@owt.com> Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 02:23:15 -0800 From: Kent Stewart User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.4) Gecko/20011128 Netscape6/6.2.1 X-Accept-Language: en-us, es-mx MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ramses van Pinxteren Cc: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: Compiling kernel for AMD processor References: <395ABDBC0952D211BB2A00104BB3F93906A1AC23@nl-amv-mail03.cmg.nl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message