From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 27 14:19:23 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id OAA13910 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 27 May 1996 14:19:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from palmer.demon.co.uk (palmer.demon.co.uk [158.152.50.150]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id OAA13897 for ; Mon, 27 May 1996 14:19:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from palmer.demon.co.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by palmer.demon.co.uk (sendmail/PALMER-1) with ESMTP id WAA02958; Mon, 27 May 1996 22:18:05 +0100 (BST) To: David Popkin cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: "Gary Palmer" Subject: Re: Kernel make problems In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 27 May 1996 15:51:12 EDT." <199605271951.PAA02844@polarbear> Date: Mon, 27 May 1996 22:18:05 +0100 Message-ID: <2956.833231885@palmer.demon.co.uk> Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk David Popkin wrote in message ID <199605271951.PAA02844@polarbear>: > Hello, I received this error at the end of make'ing a new kernel > under FreeBSD 2.1.0-RELEASE system: > > loading kernel > kern_sysctl.o: Undefined symbol `_hw_float' referenced from text segment > *** Error code 1 > #device npx0 at isa? port "IO_NPX" irq 13 vector npxintr This line is NON-OPTIONAL, whether you have a hardware FPU or need emulation... Uncomment and rebuild. I belive comments in later versions of the config files make this clearer Gary -- Gary Palmer FreeBSD Core Team Member FreeBSD: Turning PC's into workstations. See http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/ for info