From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 4 04:28:43 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) id EAA06729 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 4 Aug 1995 04:28:43 -0700 Received: from Relay1.Austria.EU.net (relay1.Austria.EU.net [192.92.138.47]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) with SMTP id EAA06723 for ; Fri, 4 Aug 1995 04:28:41 -0700 From: marino.ladavac@aut.alcatel.at Received: from aut.alcatel.at (dnisun.aut.alcatel.at) by Relay1.Austria.EU.net with SMTP id AA05980 (5.67b/IDA-1.5 for ); Fri, 4 Aug 1995 13:28:00 +0200 Received: from atuhc16 by aut.alcatel.at (4.1/SMI-4.1/AAA-1.29/main) id AA16095; Fri, 4 Aug 95 13:28:07 +0200 Message-Id: <9508041128.AA16095@atuhc16.aut.alcatel.at> Received: by atuhc16 (1.38.193.4/16.2) id AA01932; Fri, 4 Aug 1995 13:28:36 +0200 Subject: Re: Forgetting MATH_EMULATE on 486SX To: taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw (Brian Tao) Date: Fri, 4 Aug 95 13:28:35 METDST Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: ; from "Brian Tao" at Aug 4, 95 6:08 pm Mailer: Elm [revision: 70.85] Sender: questions-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > 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