From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 24 15:20:37 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id PAA04051 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 24 Aug 1996 15:20:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from phs.k12.ar.us (garman@phs.k12.ar.us [165.29.117.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA04043 for ; Sat, 24 Aug 1996 15:20:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from garman@localhost) by phs.k12.ar.us (8.6.12/8.6.9) id RAA17067; Sat, 24 Aug 1996 17:19:54 -0500 Date: Sat, 24 Aug 1996 17:19:53 -0500 (CDT) From: Jason Garman To: nitemoon cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kernel compiling In-Reply-To: <199608242141.QAA12962@mail.phoenix.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, 24 Aug 1996, nitemoon wrote: > > loading kernel > kern_sysctl.o: Undefined symbol '_hw_float' referenced from text segment > *** Error code 1 > The following line is most likely missing from your config file: device npx0 at isa? port "IO_NPX" irq 13 vector npxintr it's for the math coprocessor (whether you have a hardware one or are using the software emulation) and is required to compile a kernel. Enjoy, -- Jason Garman http://www.nesc.k12.ar.us/~garman/ Student, Eleanor Roosevelt High School garman@phs.k12.ar.us