From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 26 14:57:44 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ifaedi.insa-lyon.fr (ifhamy.insa-lyon.fr [134.214.104.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D6D815A87 for ; Sun, 26 Sep 1999 14:57:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhatala@ifaedi.insa-lyon.fr) Received: (from jhatala@localhost) by ifaedi.insa-lyon.fr (8.9.3/8.9.3) id XAA25105; Sun, 26 Sep 1999 23:57:37 +0200 From: Josef HATALA Message-Id: <199909262157.XAA25105@ifaedi.insa-lyon.fr> Subject: FreeBSD install kernel needs FPU? To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Sun, 26 Sep 1999 23:57:37 +0200 (CEST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL0pre8] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, I'm trying to install FreeBSD 3.3 on a 386DX/20 without 387. It seems that the installation kernel uses FP instructions but doesn't provide emulation in case no FPU is present. The booting process stops with a message : "FPU not present while in kernel mode." The installation guide doesn't mention that a coprocessor be needed to run FreeBSD. I do not have another FreeBSD box to compile a custom kernel. It would be fine if the fpu-emulation code were included in the installtion kernel or if an alternate kernel were provided for users of 386 processors. (This kernel might safely lack a few recent drivers if code size is critical). If you have an idea of how I could install the FreeBSD on that computer, please let me know. Thanx, jhatala@usa.net -- Jozef Hatala INSA Lyon France To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message