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From: j@narcisa.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: No disks found
Date: 12 Jun 1995 14:07:20 +0200
Organization: Private U**x site, Dresden.
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[chown etc. die with "floating point exception"]
>Sorry, it is Intell 486DX33 processor with built in math coprocessor.
>Worked fine under 2.0 since November -- not just DOS :-) Also, do why
>chown (and others) need floating point at all? Well, never mind the last
>thing (-: Thank you very much.
The Intel's are okay. So perhaps you're suffering from broken
installation media? I've never seen this behaviour (also on an Intel
486DX/33).
I think the offending code is in crt0.o, there's probably an
initialization sequence for the floating point processor. Build a
kernel without floatin point emulation, and disable npx0 `just for
fun': not a single program (not even a shell) will run.
--
cheers, J"org private: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)