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Date:      Fri, 25 Dec 1998 20:45:50 -0500 (EST)
From:      Alfred Perlstein <bright@hotjobs.com>
To:        Rick <ric@home.com>
Cc:        tarkhil@asteroid.svib.ru, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Install on 486SX
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9812252043590.2148-100000@bright.fx.genx.net>
In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19981225133150.007ebd00@mail>

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On Fri, 25 Dec 1998, Rick wrote:

> At 03:36 PM 12/25/98 +0300, Alex Povolotsky wrote:
> >Hello!
> >
> >I am trying to install 3.0-RELEASE on 486SX, and it hangs on "probing
> >devices"...
> >
> >Can it be because of lack of math emulator in install kernel?
> >

> Do You have a 3Com 3C509B Card in your Machine? it dosent like to be probed.

afaik 3.0-current boot.flp hasn't had the GPL'd math emulator in it for
several months.

you may want to try building a PICO-BSD kernel with the emulator in it
to verify that it's just the missing emulator.

-Alfred


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