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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.

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