Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1998 16:21:25 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: Jason Heiss <jheiss@ugcs.caltech.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Boot floppy and math emulation Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.03.9811091620530.3471-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <199811040623.WAA03140@myxo.ugcs.caltech.edu>
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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
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