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Date:      Wed, 06 Jan 1999 10:07:30 +0000
From:      Karl Pielorz <kpielorz@tdx.co.uk>
To:        George Lu <georgel@ktinet.com.tw>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD 3.0 Release can not boot from 386 CPU
Message-ID:  <369335E2.74AA3E79@tdx.co.uk>
References:  <3693366C.12CBFA8E@ktinet.com.tw>

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George Lu wrote:
> 
> Dear FreeBSD develpoer,
> 
> I successfuly install 3.0R on K6-266 PC. After I change the harddisk to
> a single board computer with 386 CPU (no 387) and fail to boot. The
> error message as follow,
> [snip]
> pid 10 (fsck), uid 0: exited on signal 10
> pid 12 (df), uid 0: exited on signal 10
> Bus error
> Unknow error in reboot
> Enter full pathname of shell or RETURN for /bin/sh:_
> 
> /**********************************************************************/
> 
> I hope some could help me.

Make sure you have math emulation compiled into the kernel, before booting it
on the non-FPU 386 machine, i.e.

options         MATH_EMULATE


-Kp

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