Date: Wed, 21 Oct 1998 02:24:58 -0700 From: John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@efn.org> To: Stephen McKay <syssgm@dtir.qld.gov.au> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3.0-R on a amd386dx/40 Message-ID: <19981021022458.12727@hydrogen.nike.efn.org> In-Reply-To: <199810210847.SAA06623@nymph.dtir.qld.gov.au>; from Stephen McKay on Wed, Oct 21, 1998 at 06:47:27PM %2B1000 References: <19981021004537.00515@hydrogen.nike.efn.org> <199810210847.SAA06623@nymph.dtir.qld.gov.au>
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Stephen McKay scribbled this message on Oct 21: > On Wednesday, 21st October 1998, John-Mark Gurney wrote: > > >most of the utils fail out... fsck barfs just after displaying the > >word free when it's outputing stats, df fails just as it's about to > >print the first file system... > > Sounds like the FP emulator isn't working. What do the npx lines say > on boot? well, it doesn't matter... as I told another person, the problem is that the binaries FAIL on a 2.2.1-R system... and this is a system that runs systat perfectly fine... so the problem isn't the floating point.. and the 3.0-R newfs fails on his new 2.2.6-R install that we just did tonight... so I KNOW it's not a math emulation problem... > Come to think of it, this could be the problem I'm having with my 486SX! > > I'll poke about later tonight... > > Stephen. > > PS I think my real 386 is too far gone to actually test on. It doesn't > have a working floppy any more, for example. -- John-Mark Gurney Voice: +1 541 683 6908 Cu Networking P.O. Box 5693, 97405 Live in Peace, destroy Micro$oft, support free software, run FreeBSD Don't trust anyone you don't have the source for To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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