From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Jul 24 5:29:34 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 15FB337B400 for ; Wed, 24 Jul 2002 05:29:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.speakeasy.net (mail15.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.215]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9AD2043E4A for ; Wed, 24 Jul 2002 05:29:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: (qmail 27826 invoked from network); 24 Jul 2002 12:29:29 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO server.baldwin.cx) ([216.27.160.63]) (envelope-sender ) by mail15.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with DES-CBC3-SHA encrypted SMTP for ; 24 Jul 2002 12:29:29 -0000 Received: from laptop.baldwin.cx (laptop.baldwin.cx [192.168.0.4]) by server.baldwin.cx (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g6OCTSuR034836; Wed, 24 Jul 2002 08:29:29 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.5.2 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2002 08:29:39 -0400 (EDT) From: John Baldwin To: Tim Zingelman Subject: Re: Installation issues with 4.6.1 RC2 Cc: hansot@iae.nl, re@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 23-Jul-2002 Tim Zingelman wrote: > Hans Ottevanger wrote: > >> Unable to copy /kernel into place. >> >> On VTY2 the following messages is displayed: >> >> pid 120 (cp), uid 0: exited on signal 4 (core dumped) >> Illegal instruction - core dumped >> >> Most commands given in the shell on VTY4 (e.g. ls, df, mount, ...) show >> the same error message. >> >> I have a strong feeling that this has to do with the fact that these >> systems have an i586 architecture, in contrast with the Celeron that has >> an i686 architecture. But of course it could be something completely >> different... >> >> Has anybody else tried the installation on an i586 based system ? > > Yes. On a pentium 100 I got the same thing with an ftp install after > booting from the 4.6.1 RC2 cdrom (the install direct from the cdrom also > failed, with different symptoms). > > Is it possible that 4.6.1 RC2 was somehow built without i586 support? It might have been built with -march=i686 which would cause this. Building with -mcpu=i686 might not be a bad idea, but -march=i686 will generate code that doesn't work on a 586 or lower. Murray? -- John Baldwin <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message