Yeah I think your right there, the K6-2 can only cache about 384MB at least for my mboard which is an Epox MVP3E-M and I use to getthe exact same problem.

Willy :-)

On Tuesday,  8 October 2002 at 18:40:09 +0200, Thomas Runge wrote:
> On Tue, 8 Oct 2002, Patrick Welche wrote:
> 
> > On i386 with source of Oct  7 07:36 GMT, I get
> >
> > /usr/src/tools/obj.i386/tools.NetBSD-1.6I-i386/bin/i386--netbsdelf-gcc  -ffreestanding  -pipe -Werror -Wall -Wno-main -Wno-format-zero-length -Wpointer-arith -Wmissing-prototypes -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-uninitialized  -Di386 -I.  -I/usr/src/sys/arch -I/usr/src/sys -nostdinc -DLKM -DMAXUSERS=32 -D_KERNEL -D_KERNEL_OPT   -c /usr/src/sys/dev/pci/if_pcn.c
> > /usr/src/sys/dev/pci/if_pcn.c: In function `pcn_init':
> > /usr/src/sys/dev/pci/if_pcn.c:1767: internal error--unrecognizable insn:
> > (insn 644 643 646 (set (reg:SI 170)
> >         (unspec:SI[
> >                 (const_int 512 [0x200])
> >             ]  5)) -1 (nil)
> >     (nil))
> > cpp0: output pipe has been closed
> 
> I got such failures too, as well as others (internal compiler
> errors, core dumps...).
> I finally reduced my K6-2/500 to just 450 MHz and now it works.
> 
> I guess, it's a problem with the amount of memory (512 MB), the quite
> old motherboard (five years ago, there weren't 80GB disks and >> 128 MB
> of RAM) and the BIOS.
> 
> -- 
> Tom
> 
> 
>