ai900@yfn.ysu.edu (Joshua P. Weage) writes:


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>        Well, now that I got the kernal compiled and written
>to a floppy, it turns out that it will not boot.  It says 
>something about a math emulation error because I do not
>have a co-processor and keeps repeating this over and over.
>Will p10 only run on a 486DX or a 387 ?  In the config
                                          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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>file I had math emulation off.
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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>        What's wrong now, and can I boot from the new disk
>without installing Linux over again.  (I made a dumb mistake
>and overwrote my p9 boot disk.)  Can I just use the a1 disk
>and mount the /dev/hdb2 partition, remove p10 and recompile?

If you don't have a math coprocessor, then you NEED math emulation on.
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