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Date:      Wed, 10 Sep 1997 21:26:54 +0400
From:      marck@gw.rinet.ru (Dmitry Morozovsky)
To:        secrj@econ.uib.no (Ronny Jordalen)
Cc:        freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: IBM/Cyrix PR200+
Message-ID:  <199709101726.VAA15030@gw.rinet.ru>

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In article <freebsd.hardware/19970910153802.17922@econ.uib.no> you wrote:

> > Yesterday i've set up 2.2.2-R on IBM (Cyrix) PR200+ and was very surprized
> > when it were recognized as 486DX (rather quick, though -- kernel compile in
> > less than 3.5 mins on IDE :)
> > 
> That's strange... I myself just installed FreeBSD on a machine running the
> same CPU, and FreeBSD identified it as Pentium Pro class processor. I first
> tried setting Cpu to 486-type too, as Windows does infact recognize it as 
> a 486. But then kernel would panic.

Strange for me too -- but that's it, 486DX with clock rate over 1GHz :)

> > So, my question: is there any "red points" in guidelines for setting up
> > FreeBSD on such system? (MB is ASUS T2P4, PIO4 IDE disk)
> Don't really know. My installation went flawlessly, apart from the above
> mentioned problem. I have the 2,5x66 version of the CPU btw, running off
> an Asus TX97-E MB. And running 2.2.2 as well.

My too -- however, i suppose that Pentium-oriented copy/zero block
procedures don't work.

> > Happy FreeBSDing :)))
> Aren't we always? :-)

I feel high hopes to that ;-)

--

Sincerely,
D.Marck
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=== D.Marck --- Dmitry Morozovsky --- marck@rinet.ru --- Wild Woozle ===
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