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Date:      Thu, 18 Jan 1996 13:03:04 -0500 (EST)
From:      Chuck Robey <chuckr@glue.umd.edu>
To:        Chad Shackley <zoogy@cris.com>
Cc:        "'questions@freebsd.org'" <questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: kernel recompile
Message-ID:  <Pine.SUN.3.91.960118130126.3427C-100000@mocha.eng.umd.edu>
In-Reply-To: <01BAE55E.55900BA0@chad.gaianet.net>

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On Thu, 18 Jan 1996, Chad Shackley wrote:

> Well, I recompiled the kernel, only changing an irq, adding atapi support, and removing some devices.  After doing make depend, I run make.
> 
> It goes for awhile, and then I get the error message:
> 
> Loading kernel
> kern_sysctl.o: undefined symbol '_hw_float' from text segment   *** Error code 1

This is a guess, but a common error that yields that "hw_float" 
diagnostic is taking out the npx0 device from your kernel config file.  
The npx0 device is very definitely NOT optional, so make certain it's in 
there, OK?

> 
> 
> W	H	Y	?
> 
> 
> Chad
> 
> 

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