From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: From: jmk@plan9.bell-labs.com To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] fresh compiled kernels no longer boot..? In-Reply-To: <315a85435b9323e1c64feb3b3535074f@plan9.bell-labs.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2004 18:02:46 -0500 Topicbox-Message-UUID: c0a4738e-eacc-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 On Sun Jan 25 17:38:41 EST 2004, presotto@closedmind.org wrote: > The 486 problems shouldn't bother a K6 which is a pentium comnpatible machine. > However, jmk has already fixed that for 486's. If you want, you could comment > out lines 900 and 901 in 9/pc/devarch.c and see if it helps. > > Unfortinately, I don't have a matching processor. I did make a cpu kernel from > the distribution and it worked on a Xeon but that doesn't tell you much I guess. The DX value from the cpuid instruction shows the processor has the capabilities which were missing on Lucio's SiS processor and causing it to reboot, so that shouldn't be the problem.