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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!vic.news.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!newsfeed.internetmci.com!sgigate.sgi.com!newsfeeder.sdsu.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!saturn!larryr From: larryr@saturn.sdsu.edu (Larry Riedel) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Can FreeBSD 2.1.1 support Cyrix 6x86??Etc... Date: 25 Jun 1996 00:27:40 GMT Organization: San Diego State University Lines: 20 Message-ID: <4qnbps$60e@hole.sdsu.edu> References: <Dt5v2D.A6I@news2.new-york.net> <4qjgpi$4ds@uriah.heep.sax.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: saturn.sdsu.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] J Wunsch (j@uriah.heep.sax.de) wrote: > le@put.com (Louis Epstein) wrote: > > > Just what is the pre-release status of 2.1.1 at the moment? > > Another posting indicated that a 6x86 option was only added to the > > Hmm, i seem to remember that the 6x86 works fine, but is detected as a > 486. (So if you accidentally removed the I486_CPU, it won't work for > you.) I have a 120MHz 6x86 on an ASUS T2P4 motherboard, and FreeBSD 2.1-RELEASE faithfully crashes after a few minutes with the internal cache enabled. If I turn the internal cache off with the BIOS, it works like a champ (albeit a slow champ). I don't know if it is the interaction of the CPU and the motherboard or if it has something to do with FreeBSD. I guess I will try it with a more robust OS like Windows 95. ;) Larry