Anyone have 4.8-RELEASE running on a real 386 processor (not a 486, 586 etc) ? I have a 386 that runs 4.7, dmesg as below, both GENERIC & my own kernel. But it wont boot either 4.8 { generic or my own config} compiled on my other 4.8 box. I tried making with & without /etc/make.conf CFLAGS = -m386 -march=i386 -msoft-float -mcpu=i386 -O -pipe COPTFLAGS= -m386 -march=i386 -msoft-float -mcpu=i386 -O -pipe I tried the /kernel copied from a 4.8 cdrom to hard disk (no cdrom drive on the box). I tried 4.8 boot floppies (to prove its not something wrong in hard disc /boot) They all crash during boot -s. This 386 box is no bigger than a book, hence I persevere with it, (though I have modern boxes too :-) "SX 33" written on chip, though dmesg reports "DX". I recall 386 support was dropped in 5.0, but I do not see any signs of dropping 386 in 4.8 /usr/share/mk when I compare with 4.7 /usr/share/mk. The 4.8 cdrom /[A-Z]* files say i386 is still supported. I removed the only card in the box (a 3com ISA ethernet jumperless) - still wouldnt boot, so put ethernet card back in. I compiled a kernel with ddb, Results copied by hand as no serial for remote gdb. I'm stuck. Any ideas ? 4.8 ddb: Fatal trap 1: priveleged instruction fault while in kernel mode instruction pointer = 0x8:0xc02695a0 stack pointewr = 0x10:0xc0379fcc frame pointer = 0x10:0xc0379fcc code segment = base 0x0, limit 0xfffff, type 0x1b = DPL 0, pres 1, def 32 1, gran 1 processor eflags = interrupt enabled, resume, IOPL = 0 current process = Idle interrupt mask = net tty bio cam kernel: type 1 trap, code=0 stopped at 0xc02695a0: invlpg 0(%ecx) db> trace (null)(c0391000,fd8000) at 0xc02695a0 (null)(37e000,0,0,0,0) at 0xc0262b8f (null)() at 0xc0121aea db> ps pid proc addr uid ppid pgrp flag stat wmesg wchan cmd 0 c02f4400 c0377000 0 0 0 000000 0 4.8 dmesg FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE #0: Wed Apr 9 16:08:31 CEST 2003 jhs @ king:/usr1/src/sys/compile/MINI.small Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz CPU: i386DX (386-class CPU) real memory = 16646144 (16256K bytes) avail memory = 13115392 (12808K bytes) Preloaded elf kernel "kernel" at 0xc0343000. md0: Malloc disk npx0: on motherboard npx0: 387 emulator isa0: on motherboard orm0: