From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jul 18 20:27:04 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) id UAA00595 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 18 Jul 1995 20:27:04 -0700 Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [192.216.222.3]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id UAA00587 for ; Tue, 18 Jul 1995 20:27:03 -0700 Received: from kksys.skypoint.net (kksys.skypoint.net [199.86.32.5]) by who.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.11) with SMTP id UAA16161 for ; Tue, 18 Jul 1995 20:26:59 -0700 Received: from starfire.mn.org by kksys.skypoint.net with smtp (Smail3.1.29.1 #2) id m0sYPUE-0003AgC; Tue, 18 Jul 95 22:07 CDT Received: (from john@localhost) by starfire.mn.org (8.6.8/1.2.1) id WAA14174 for hackers@FreeBSD.org; Tue, 18 Jul 1995 22:20:18 -0500 From: John Lind Message-Id: <199507190320.WAA14174@starfire.mn.org> Subject: FreeBSD 2.x may not run on Cyrix 486DL To: hackers@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Tue, 18 Jul 1995 22:20:17 -0500 (CDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 753 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I have tried images to boot FreeBSD 2.0R, 2.0.5R, and 2.0.5-950622-SNAP on my 33Mhz Cyrix 486DL which is currently running FreeBSD 1.1, and none of them have worked. 2.0R hangs before the "Testing Memory" message, and the 2.0.5 versions reboot right before the Copyright message (right after uncompressing done and booting kernel). I have tried all three boot images on my 386, and the images themselves seem fine. (I have tried to disable the cache, but that breaks this system very badly for some unknown reason...) Should I bite the bullet and get a 486 MB and an Intel chip, or is there some way I can contribute to resolving this? John Lind, Starfire Consulting Services E-mail: john@starfire.MN.ORG USnail: PO Box 17247, Mpls MN 55417