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To: Andrew <root@hobart.tased.edu.au>
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Subject: Re: Rebuilding Kernel 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 17 Nov 1995 20:49:36 +1100."
             <Pine.BSF.3.91.951117204404.4275A-100000@flopsy.hobart.tased.edu.au> 
Date: Fri, 17 Nov 1995 01:54:34 -0800
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From: Gary Palmer <gpalmer@westhill.cdrom.com>
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Andrew wrote in message ID
<Pine.BSF.3.91.951117204404.4275A-100000@flopsy.hobart.tased.edu.au>:
> cc -O -W -Wreturn-type -Wcomment -Wredundant-decls -Wimplicit  -nostdinc 
> -I. -I.
> ./.. -I../../sys -I../../../include -DLAMO -DI486_CPU -DUCONSOLE 
> -DSCSI_DELAY=15
>  -DCOMPAT_43 -DPROCFS -DMSDOSFS -DFFS -DINET -DGPL_MATH_EMULATE -DKERNEL 
> -Di386
> -DLOAD_ADDRESS=0xF0100000 -c vers.c
> loading kernel
> kern_sysctl.o: Undefined symbol `_hw_float' referenced from text segment
> *** Error code 1
> #device		npx0	at isa? port "IO_NPX" irq 13 vector npxintr

  ^^^^^^^

That's your problem. The npx device is non-optional AFAIR.

Gary