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From: mi@csb.bu.edu (Mikhail Teterin)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: INTERRUPT 16 boot hang
Date: 19 Jul 1995 03:29:34 GMT
Organization: Computer Science Department, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA
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Some time ago (18 Jul 1995 14:55:34 GMT) honorable Thad Phetteplace x4461, 
residing at tdphette@mke.ab.com wrote:
|I am upgrading a FreeBSD 1.5.1.1 system to 2.0.5.  The install process
|works fine, but then the system hangs during boot with the following
|message:

|npx0: INTERRUPT 16

npx0, AFAIK, stands for numeric co-processor. Tell the gurus, what
kind of processor you have. In the mean time, try booting with -c
option (say -c on the boot prompt) and tell to whatever comes up to
	disable npx0
	quit
Hopefully, kernel will get around npx0, and will use emulator then.
	-mi
-- 
И пусть никто не уйдёт обиженным...
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