From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Oct 21 08:24:55 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA00514 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Wed, 21 Oct 1998 08:24:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from relay01.iafrica.com (relay01.iafrica.com [196.7.0.160]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA00502 for ; Wed, 21 Oct 1998 08:24:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rnordier@iafrica.com) Received: from 196-31-98-1.iafrica.com ([196.31.98.1] helo=ceia.nordier.com) by relay01.iafrica.com with esmtp (Exim 1.92 #2) for freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG id 0zVxHn-0003Kf-00; Wed, 21 Oct 1998 14:22:44 +0200 Received: (from rnordier@localhost) by ceia.nordier.com (8.8.7/8.6.12) id LAA25430; Wed, 21 Oct 1998 11:38:39 +0200 (SAT) From: Robert Nordier Message-Id: <199810210938.LAA25430@ceia.nordier.com> Subject: Re: 3.0-R on a amd386dx/40 In-Reply-To: <19981021022458.12727@hydrogen.nike.efn.org> from John-Mark Gurney at "Oct 21, 98 02:24:58 am" To: gurney_j@resnet.uoregon.edu Date: Wed, 21 Oct 1998 11:38:34 +0200 (SAT) Cc: syssgm@dtir.qld.gov.au, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG John-Mark Gurney wrote: > Stephen McKay scribbled this message on Oct 21: > > On Wednesday, 21st October 1998, John-Mark Gurney wrote: > > > > >most of the utils fail out... fsck barfs just after displaying the > > >word free when it's outputing stats, df fails just as it's about to > > >print the first file system... > > > > Sounds like the FP emulator isn't working. What do the npx lines say > > on boot? > > well, it doesn't matter... as I told another person, the problem is > that the binaries FAIL on a 2.2.1-R system... and this is a system that > runs systat perfectly fine... so the problem isn't the floating point.. > > and the 3.0-R newfs fails on his new 2.2.6-R install that we just did > tonight... so I KNOW it's not a math emulation problem... Definitely FP-related. I happen to have an amd386dx/40 here, and just took a quick look. I may do some digging myself, if nothing comes up in the next few hours. -- Robert Nordier To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message