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Date:      Wed, 10 Feb 1999 14:33:51 +0100 (CET)
From:      Andrzej Bialecki <abial@nask.pl>
To:        Cristian Angelini <chr.ang@biella.alpcom.it>
Cc:        freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   WARNING (Re: 3.0-based pico)
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9902101431440.14864-100000@korin.warman.org.pl>
In-Reply-To: <36C16ACC.54B058F6@biella.alpcom.it>

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[I took the liberty of CC:ing this to freebsd-small. I hope you don't
mind]

On Wed, 10 Feb 1999, Cristian Angelini wrote:

> Cristian Angelini wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > maybe you already know this. There are problems on the new 3-stage
> > bootstrap code that prevents pc without fpu to boot. While this is
> > almost unimportant for normal new bsd installation, it strikes a lot for
> > our custom small setup on old pc like 386 or 486sx.
> 
> Works !
> 
> I disabled the Forth Interpreter on the loader code, and now my 386-laptop
> is back to life. My new loader code is also smaller (40K less in
> uncompressed format). Wow !

Thanks for notification, and workaround! I think that the problem is
related to use of doubles in FICL... this was corrected yesterday IIRC.
Could you see if this helped?

Andrzej Bialecki

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