From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Dec 19 04:11:55 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id EAA12462 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 19 Dec 1995 04:11:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from hornet.netac.co.za (hornet.netac.co.za [196.3.237.162]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id EAA12414 for ; Tue, 19 Dec 1995 04:11:03 -0800 (PST) Received: (from tony@localhost) by hornet.netac.co.za (8.6.12/8.6.12) id OAA02466; Tue, 19 Dec 1995 14:10:39 +0200 From: Tony Harverson Message-Id: <199512191210.OAA02466@hornet.netac.co.za> Subject: Re: Kernel compilation problem To: tbrown@icon-stl.net (Timothy C. Brown) Date: Tue, 19 Dec 1995 14:10:38 +0200 (SAT) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Reply-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Timothy C. Brown" at Dec 12, 95 09:06:10 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > > On a clean install of FreeBSD v2.1, I have the following problem, with > the kernel compiling fine up to this point... my options file is attached. > Does anybody have any ideas? I'm a FreeBSD newbie ... > > BTW: Don't know if this would matter, but it is a P75 w/ 8MB of RAM. > -- > edison# make > loading kernel > kern_sysctl.o: Undefined symbol `_hw_float' referenced from text segment > *** Error code 1 > > Stop. > edison# exit > #device npx0 at isa? port "IO_NPX" irq 13 vector npxintr This line is a problem - the npx device is non-optional and must not be commented out (it's the interface to either the software or hardware numerical co-processor). Uncomment it and your compile problems will go away. This came up a while ago, and things were suggested from better documentation in GENERIC to disabling the option. What was the descision there ? are we going to decument it, or leave it outa the config file ? (on another note : why is it in the config file ? It's non-optional, so no-one should ever want to take it out. latez Tony