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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!serv.hinet.net!news.uoregon.edu!Symiserver2.symantec.com!news From: tedm@agora.rdrop.com Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: IBM P166+ (CYRIX) an i486_MACHINE ? Date: 30 Oct 1996 06:55:04 GMT Organization: Symantec Corp. Lines: 12 Message-ID: <556u48$5vi@Symiserver2.symantec.com> References: <32634E20.2CD7@usoft.nl> <54s8gj$481@amd40.wecs.org> Reply-To: tedm@agora.rdrop.com NNTP-Posting-Host: shiva4.central.com X-Newsreader: IBM NewsReader/2 v1.2.5 In <54s8gj$481@amd40.wecs.org>, duane@amd40.wecs.org (Duane Eddingfield) writes: >Willem Wals (walsw@usoft.nl) wrote: >: kernel configuration file. After reboot I got a kernel-panic stating I >: was unable to start due to unrecognized cpu. Rebooted from old kernel > >I had exactly the same experience with an AMD 5x586 chip. Had to >set it back to i486 and it worked fine. > The 5x586 is a 486 chip multiplied by 5 times. 33x5=133 according to AMD's logic I guess. ;-) This is explained on AMD's website.