CPUTYPE?=athlon-xp breaks loader (was Re: instant reboot when
trying to load recent RELENG_5 kernel)
Doug White
dwhite at gumbysoft.com
Mon Nov 1 19:02:33 PST 2004
On Mon, 1 Nov 2004, John Baldwin wrote:
> Your BIOS writer needs to be beaten with a blunt instrument. They are trying
> to enter protected mode themselves and not handling the fact that they can be
> called from vm86 mode. There's not much FreeBSD can do about narrow-minded,
> kludgey BIOS code.
ISTR that some BIOSen try to play this game because they are trying to see
if UDMA works. Try demoting the disk to PIO in the BIOS; FreBSD ignores
this setting when configuring disks, so its safe to leave that way.
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Doug White | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve
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