Hello, I have a problem which I have found out from mailing lists that some other people had. However there is no clear solution. The CPUTYPE=athlon-xp in make.conf breaks /boot/loader that system instant reboots. I am using 6-stable and from what I can see the problem goes back till about 5.3... Sometime between Oct 12-15, 2005 http://archive.netbsd.se/?ml=freebsd-current&a=2004-10&m=435817 I wonder if this will ever be fixed or I shouldnt use CPUTYPE=athlon-xp anymore on FreeBSD because of this? Thanks, Evren
Evren Yurtesen wrote:> Hello, > > I have a problem which I have found out from mailing lists that some > other people had. However there is no clear solution. > > The CPUTYPE=athlon-xp in make.conf breaks /boot/loader that system > instant reboots. I am using 6-stable and from what I can see the problem > goes back till about 5.3... Sometime between Oct 12-15, 2005 > > http://archive.netbsd.se/?ml=freebsd-current&a=2004-10&m=435817 > > I wonder if this will ever be fixed or I shouldnt use CPUTYPE=athlon-xp > anymore on FreeBSD because of this? >I have the same problem with CPUTYPE=pentium-m and there is an easy solution. I have the following lines in my /etc/make.conf: # /boot/loader crashs with pentium-m .if ${.CURDIR:M*/src/sys/boot/i386/loader*} CPUTYPE= pentium3 .endif Exchange pentium3 with something that works for you, i.e. athlon and it should be fine for you.
I filed a bug report for this in January of 2005: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=75898 - Bartosz
Evren Yurtesen wrote:> > I have a problem which I have found out from mailing lists that some > other people had. However there is no clear solution. > > The CPUTYPE=athlon-xp in make.conf breaks /boot/loader that system > instant reboots. I am using 6-stable and from what I can see the problem > goes back till about 5.3... Sometime between Oct 12-15, 2005I've seen no problems using CPUTYPE?=athlon-xp.> http://archive.netbsd.se/?ml=freebsd-current&a=2004-10&m=435817 > > I wonder if this will ever be fixed or I shouldnt use CPUTYPE=athlon-xp > anymore on FreeBSD because of this?
> Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2006 17:43:58 +0300 > From: Evren Yurtesen <yurtesen@ispro.net.tr> > Subject: CPUTYPE=athlon-xp and loader > To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org > Message-ID: <4442582E.9030507@ispro.net.tr> > > Hello, > > I have a problem which I have found out from mailing lists that some > other people had. However there is no clear solution. > > The CPUTYPE=athlon-xp in make.conf breaks /boot/loader that system > instant reboots. I am using 6-stable and from what I can see the problem > goes back till about 5.3... Sometime between Oct 12-15, 2005 > > http://archive.netbsd.se/?ml=freebsd-current&a=2004-10&m=435817 > > I wonder if this will ever be fixed or I shouldnt use CPUTYPE=athlon-xp > anymore on FreeBSD because of this? > > Thanks, > EvrenI don't propose this as a solution, but as far as I know, the best practice is: CPUTYPE?=athlon-xp Note the question mark. I don't know that this will solve your problem, just pointing out the correct syntax, for whatever CPUTYPE you decide to use.
On Mon, April 17, 2006 6:23 pm, James Long said:>> Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2006 17:43:58 +0300 >> From: Evren Yurtesen <yurtesen@ispro.net.tr> >> Subject: CPUTYPE=athlon-xp and loader >> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org >> Message-ID: <4442582E.9030507@ispro.net.tr> >> >> >> Hello, >> >> >> I have a problem which I have found out from mailing lists that some >> other people had. However there is no clear solution. >> >> The CPUTYPE=athlon-xp in make.conf breaks /boot/loader that system >> instant reboots. I am using 6-stable and from what I can see the problem >> goes back till about 5.3... Sometime between Oct 12-15, 2005> I don't propose this as a solution, but as far as I know, the best > practice is: > > CPUTYPE?=athlon-xpDoes anyone know if this improves performance on an ahtlon-xp ? -kim -- w8hdkim@gmail.com