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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FP
Date: 9 Aug 1996 19:34:32 GMT
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hmmm <hmmm@alaska.net> wrote:

> i get the error on boot:
> 
> npx0 blah blah
> rootfs is 1200kb compiled in MFS
> 
> then the system hangs ...

So it has already found the root f/s.  If it's 2.1.5, you can try to
add the -v (bootverbose) flag at the boot prompt, and see if you can
determine from the additional messages where it hangs.  I think it's
the point where it is either mounting the root f/s, or starting
sysinstall as init.

Make sure it's not a hardware (RAM, cache) problem.  (Does the same
floppy boot on another machine?  No, the FPU is not the problem, as
you can see, npx0 has been found, and what you entitled ``blah blah''
is probably the message that it's using the FPU emulator.)

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)