Date: Sat, 19 May 2001 11:25:07 +1000 From: "Doug Young" <dougy@brizzie.org> To: <jowski@hushmail.com>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: privileged instruction fault on Cyrix CPU during boot Message-ID: <143b01c0e002$8a5dbf90$0300a8c0@oracle> References: <3B05BAD3.AA524303@netzero.net>
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> 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: <Parallel I/O> 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
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