Date: Fri, 4 Aug 95 13:28:35 METDST From: marino.ladavac@aut.alcatel.at To: taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw (Brian Tao) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Forgetting MATH_EMULATE on 486SX Message-ID: <9508041128.AA16095@atuhc16.aut.alcatel.at> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.91.950804172036.16466A-100000@aries>; from "Brian Tao" at Aug 4, 95 6:08 pm
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> I was installing a new kernel for the Big Boss today, mistakenly
> thinking that his Compaq Prosigna 425 was a 486DX when instead it was
> a 486SX. Without the x87 math emulation in the kernel, you are dead
> in the water because /bin/sh will not run without it. /etc/rc dies
> and the system attempts to go into singleuser mode, but of course that
> runs /bin/sh, so you're stuck.
> If the math emulation doesn't take up much more memory or increase
> the kernel size too much, would it be a good idea to have it included
> by default?
AFAIK, it is in the GENERIC kernel. You have to disable npx device.
/Alby
> --
> Brian ("Though this be madness, yet there is method in't") Tao
> taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw <-- work ........ play --> taob@io.org
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