Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2007 01:22:49 +0200 From: deeptech71@gmail.com To: Darren Pilgrim <freebsd@bitfreak.org> Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: what can i do with a 486? Message-ID: <461ACAC9.6090209@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <461ABEFE.5040200@bitfreak.org> References: <3428D9627CC79A4ABF37A519431D98120D685FA7@nmr001oldmsx05.enterprisenet.org> <461AAF8E.6000304@gmail.com> <461ABEFE.5040200@bitfreak.org>
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Darren Pilgrim wrote:
> deeptech71@gmail.com wrote:
>> Gray, David W wrote:
>>> Is that a 48*6* or a 48*7*??? You MUST HAVE a floating point emulator if
>>> you don't have a '487
>>> (also known as a '486 overdrive), or no boot. I'm at work, so I don't
>>> know if we still ship
>>> the emulator(s), but you need it.
>>
>> That might be it. How to add FPU emu support to the 6.2 kernel? (or is
>> it available up to 5.2?)
>
> I would try to boot 4.11-R before investing any more time trying to boot
> 5.x or 6.x. Legacy support is still intact in 4.x and, if it does boot,
> you can provide complete dmesg and pciconf outputs.
>
What is this? It caught my eye.
npx0: 387 emulator
Because 10 minutes ago I installed FreeBSD 2.2.9-RELEASE on the 486 and it boots
with the generic kernel and works just fine. OMG!
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