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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!howland.erols.net!news.sprintlink.net!news-peer.sprintlink.net!server1.nw.ixe.net!server1.adam.ixe.net!wirehub!sun4nl!news.eur.encompass.com!Leiden.NL.net!dwerguil.usoft.nl!news From: Willem Wals <walsw@usoft.nl> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: IBM P166+ (CYRIX) an i486_MACHINE ? Date: Tue, 15 Oct 1996 09:41:04 +0100 Organization: USoft The Server/Client software company Lines: 15 Message-ID: <32634E20.2CD7@usoft.nl> NNTP-Posting-Host: nlpdfw01.usoft.nl Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0Gold (WinNT; I) Hi All, Last week a bought a new motherboard and a IBM P166+ chip. Reinstalled my FreeBSD 2.1.5-Release on it and started building my own kernel. Under the impression I had a Pentium-clone-chip I choose I586_MACHINE and removed I386_MACHINE, I486_MACHINE entries from my kernel configuration file. After reboot I got a kernel-panic stating I was unable to start due to unrecognized cpu. Rebooted from old kernel (GENERIC) and changed I586 to I486, recompile, reboot and had a flying system (real fast compared to my old 66Mhz pentium). Now for the question: Is it normal to detect IBM P166+ as an I486? Willem Wals walsw@usoft.nl