From: "Russ Cox" <rsc@swtch.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan9/Bochs/kernel panic
Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2003 09:14:06 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1AJZHY-000Kxn-Jl@t40.swtch.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 11 Nov 2003 09:34:33 GMT." <cff820f1.0311101134.4eb3efc3@posting.google.com>
> I tried installing Plan9 on Boches (CVS on Debian unstable, kernel
> 2.6.0-test9), but get a strange error when I boot from the floppy.
> The kernel loads and detects the emulated CPU, then dies immediatly
> with a "panic: math emu". Also interesting is before the "entry:
> 80100020" line, there's this strange line that appears to be some kind
> of computation. "1267078 => 745652+1116416+83748=1945816.".
>
> Any ideas?
The computation is the boot loader telling you its progress
in loading the kernel. Disk size => text+data+bss = Mem size.
Beyond that I'm not much help. Math emu means that the kernel
got a floating point exception, which should not happen.
Russ
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2003-11-11 9:34 Paul Swartz
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