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Date:      Tue, 28 Nov 1995 12:20:15 -0800 (PST)
From:      Donald Burr <d_burr@ix.netcom.com>
To:        Joe Ziskovsky <prefect@prefect.unomaha.edu>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Compile problems with 2.1
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.951128121840.9336B-100000@ncc-1701-d>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.951128075938.5210A-100000@prefect.unomaha.edu>

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On Tue, 28 Nov 1995, Joe Ziskovsky wrote:

> this is the error message
>
> loading kernel
> kern_sysctl.o: Undefined symbol `_hw_float' referenced from text segment
> *** Error code 1
> 
> Stop.
> 
> My configuration
> 
> #device		npx0	at isa? port "IO_NPX" irq 13 vector npxintr

Un-comment this line -- it is the device for a hardware floating point 
unit (which the Pentium-90 has), then recompile.

PS - Why isn't this line commented in the default kernel config file's?  
It would save a lot of heartache, because I've seen this question come up 
about a billion times here...

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