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Offline strafford

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Possible to boot on on machine with no FPU?
« on: August 12, 2009, 05:23:04 PM »
Hi

I have a small SBC with no FPU.  Is it possible (perhaps with some boot parameter) to boot Tiny Core (I have tried 2.2 and if failed stating there is no fpu).

I know that Debian 4.0 can w/ option pnpbios=off but...

Regards,
Scott
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Offline danielibarnes

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Re: Possible to boot on on machine with no FPU?
« Reply #1 on: August 12, 2009, 06:10:48 PM »
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Offline curaga

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Re: Possible to boot on on machine with no FPU?
« Reply #2 on: August 15, 2009, 02:13:48 PM »
That option was disabled, because practically all hardware has a FPU nowadays, and enabling it would enlarge the kernel unnecessarily.

Thus you would need to recompile the kernel.
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Re: Possible to boot on on machine with no FPU?
« Reply #3 on: August 17, 2009, 12:27:35 PM »
Yeah, I figured that out once I took the time to test it. However, recompiling the kernel is a small cost to get a working system, especially if such a small change is all it will take.
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