From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 18 18:25:31 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from bryden.apana.org.au (bryden.apana.org.au [203.3.126.129]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 219D837B42C for ; Fri, 18 May 2001 18:25:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dougy@brizzie.org) Received: from oracle ([192.168.0.3]) by bryden.apana.org.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id LAA88014; Sat, 19 May 2001 11:23:54 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from dougy@brizzie.org) Message-ID: <143b01c0e002$8a5dbf90$0300a8c0@oracle> From: "Doug Young" To: , References: <3B05BAD3.AA524303@netzero.net> Subject: Re: privileged instruction fault on Cyrix CPU during boot Date: Sat, 19 May 2001 11:25:07 +1000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2462.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2462.0000 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 > Is there any reason why FreeBSD 4.2 won't run "right out of the box" on > a Cyrix 200 MMX clone box without giving a "privileged instruction while > in kernel mode" fault message? This happens right after it reaches > ppi0: on ppbus0 during the boot phase. > > Please respond to me directly since I'm not on the mailing list but will > subscribe once I have instructions on how to do so. > I wouldn't think the problem is the Cyrix CPU because I've installed FreeBSD in heaps of them without problems ..... my guess would be your machine is one of the "brand name" things built specifically for Microsoft operating systems & possibly a bit fiddly & maybe even impossible to use with FreeBSD The info on joining mailing lists is at the normal http://wwwfreebsd.org site To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message