From owner-freebsd-small Wed Feb 10 05:27:13 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA25490 for freebsd-small-outgoing; Wed, 10 Feb 1999 05:27:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from korin.warman.org.pl (korin.nask.waw.pl [195.187.243.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA25485 for ; Wed, 10 Feb 1999 05:27:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from abial@nask.pl) Received: from localhost (abial@localhost) by korin.warman.org.pl (8.9.1/8.8.5) with SMTP id OAA16027; Wed, 10 Feb 1999 14:33:52 +0100 (CET) X-Authentication-Warning: korin.warman.org.pl: abial owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1999 14:33:51 +0100 (CET) From: Andrzej Bialecki X-Sender: abial@korin.warman.org.pl To: Cristian Angelini cc: freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: WARNING (Re: 3.0-based pico) In-Reply-To: <36C16ACC.54B058F6@biella.alpcom.it> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [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 -------------------- ++-------++ ------------------------------------- ||PicoBSD|| FreeBSD in your pocket? Go and see: Research & Academic |+-------+| "Small & Embedded FreeBSD" Network in Poland | |TT~~~| | http://www.freebsd.org/~picobsd/ -------------------- ~-+==---+-+ ------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message