Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2007 19:12:57 -0700 From: Darren Pilgrim <freebsd@bitfreak.org> To: deeptech71@gmail.com Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: what can i do with a 486? Message-ID: <461AF2A9.6030501@bitfreak.org> In-Reply-To: <461ACAC9.6090209@gmail.com> References: <3428D9627CC79A4ABF37A519431D98120D685FA7@nmr001oldmsx05.enterprisenet.org> <461AAF8E.6000304@gmail.com> <461ABEFE.5040200@bitfreak.org> <461ACAC9.6090209@gmail.com>
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deeptech71@gmail.com wrote: > 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 Proof that the computer has no FPU and is therefore not supported by 5.2 and numerically later releases.
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