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From: veit@mururoa.gmd.de (Holger Veit)
Subject: Re: FreeBSD npx0 giving error message
Message-ID: <1993Oct9.133357.28650@gmd.de>
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Date: Sat, 9 Oct 1993 13:33:57 GMT
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Sam De Francesco (sdefranc@lsupoz.apana.org.au) wrote:
: Hi,
:
: I have just installed FreeBSD on my 486DX33, and
: am getting the following message while booting up:
:
: npx0: Errors reported via Exception 16
:
: I am just using the kernel from the standard
: distribution. I would be grateful to hear from
: anyone who has experienced this or knows what
: could be causing this.
:
: Thank You,
: Sam De Francesco
: sdefranc@lsupoz.apana.org.au
This is one of the most misleading startup messages, that was brought
in with pk-0.2.4 and has not been corrected so far. This is not
an error message, but instead a report that coprocessor errors
(such as division by zero, overflow and such) will be reported
to the kernel by some specific method. "Exception 16" is common
for 486 systems. There exist other methods. No need to worry,
everything is okay. I would care if I had a 486DX (with copro)
and would not get this message.
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