From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Sep 14 11:14:53 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id LAA28844 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 14 Sep 1996 11:14:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from alaska.net (root@calvino.alaska.net [206.149.65.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA28839 for ; Sat, 14 Sep 1996 11:14:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hmmm.alaska.net by alaska.net (5.x/SMI-SVR4) id AA13783; Sat, 14 Sep 1996 10:14:31 -0800 Message-Id: <3238ED4C.7604@alaska.net> Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 22:12:44 -0700 From: hmmm X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.02 (Win16; I) Mime-Version: 1.0 To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu Cc: System Administrator , questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: NCR box and FreeBSD References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Doug White wrote: > > On Thu, 12 Sep 1996, System Administrator wrote: > > So, I try to put FreeBSD-2.1.5 on it but it doesn't work. It froze on me > > when it show the line npx0. Do you know what should i do? > > MCA?? so this box is Microchannel? > Guess what -- Microchannel machines aren't supported. i had that problem with a machine (i'm 97% sure it was npx0), and it was a 386sx. the best answer i could find is that the stock fpu emulator was not well. i do have 2.1.5 running on many other sx's though ... what was interesting is that by snapping in a 387, according to my boss, the machine booted fine! i got advice to compile gnu's fpu emulation into the kernel. (newsgroups)