From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Sep 14 16:46:18 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id QAA18507 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 14 Sep 1996 16:46:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pe.lssu.edu (pe.lssu.edu [198.110.216.165]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id QAA18500 for ; Sat, 14 Sep 1996 16:46:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from pe@localhost) by pe.lssu.edu (8.7.1/8.7.1) id PAA03107; Sat, 14 Sep 1996 15:46:58 -0400 Date: Sat, 14 Sep 1996 15:46:56 -0400 (EDT) From: System Administrator To: hmmm cc: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu, questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: NCR box and FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <3238ED4C.7604@alaska.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 12 Sep 1996, hmmm wrote: > Doug White wrote: > > > > On Thu, 12 Sep 1996, System Administrator wrote: > > > So, I try to put FreeBSD-2.1.5 on it but it doesn't work. It froze on me > > > when it show the line npx0. Do you know what should i do? > > > > MCA?? so this box is Microchannel? > > Guess what -- Microchannel machines aren't supported. > > i had that problem with a machine (i'm 97% sure it was npx0), > and it was a 386sx. the best answer i could find is that the > stock fpu emulator was not well. i do have 2.1.5 running on > many other sx's though ... what was interesting is that by > snapping in a 387, according to my boss, the machine booted > fine! i got advice to compile gnu's fpu emulation into > the kernel. (newsgroups) > so how can I compile gnu's fpu emulation into the kernel?.. can I it from other FreeBSD box or other Linux box?. thank you. Pe'