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From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: [FreeBSD]: Where is GENERICISA ?
Date: 27 Oct 1993 16:03:27 GMT
Organization: Montana State University, Bozeman MT
Lines: 46
Message-ID: <2am64f$1u8@pdq.coe.montana.edu>
References: <5725@chorus.chorus.fr>
NNTP-Posting-Host: bsd.coe.montana.edu
Keywords: FreeBSD, config
In article <5725@chorus.chorus.fr>,
Stephane Eranian <eranian@opera.chorus.fr> wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I recently installed FreeBSD1.0EPSILON on one of our PCs at the university.
>The target computer was a DELL466/M 16Mo, 500Mo IDE + SMC WD8013EPC.
>
>Everything runs welll, except the warm reboot (prb with WD8013 identified as WD8003)
Fixed in the FreeBSD 1.0. { Note there isn't any specification :-)
>Anyway, my machine is a full ISA/IDE one. The default kernel used by the installation
>use the GENRICAHA configuration. So I decided to recompile a new kernel which
>will better match my hardware config. The problem is that the FreeBSD kernel
>source distribution does not content the GENERICISA file.
That's because it uses the GENERICAH version. Just remove the SCSI stuff
from the GENERICAH and rename it. The reason we have the SCSI stuff is so
that the kernel can run on as many machines as possible.
>I've some other questions:
>
>* I have a 486, what's should I put in the config file for the cpu ?
> I put cpu "i486" and remove the MATH_EMULATE option. Everything
> compiled well, but the ps -aux caused Floating Point Execption !!
Hmm, why do you need a config file if you've got one already that works?
It's possible that you will need to re-compile ps if you re-compile your
kernel, but that shouldn't be necessary. Are you sure your 486 contains
a FPU?
>* Do we have some kernfs implementation with FreeBSD (as for NetBSD) ?
Frankly, I don't see the purpose of /kernfs stuff. A real proc fs would
be nice, and there is some work in that arena going on for FreeBSD.
Nate
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