From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 9 16:21:56 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA13565 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 9 Nov 1998 16:21:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA13557 for ; Mon, 9 Nov 1998 16:21:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA11410; Mon, 9 Nov 1998 16:21:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1998 16:21:25 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White To: Jason Heiss cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Boot floppy and math emulation In-Reply-To: <199811040623.WAA03140@myxo.ugcs.caltech.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 3 Nov 1998, Jason Heiss wrote: > On my 386 with no math coprocessor I'm getting a "Fatal trap 9" > when I try to boot off of the 3.0 installation floppy. I had > no problems booting off of the 2.2.7 floppy. The errata > page mentions that use of GPL_MATH_EMULATE causes a fatal > trap on startup. Was the installation floppy compiled with this > option? If so, are there plans to release one compiled with > just MATH_EMULATE? Try grabbing one of the floppies from current.freebsd.org in one of the 3.0-SNAP dirs, and change the release name to 3.0-RELEASE on the options screen. Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message