From: Adrian.Wallaschek@arbi.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de (Adrian Wallaschek) Subject: Re: Boot msg: Bad 386/387 coupling Date: Mon, 5 Jul 1993 12:41:31 GMT
mkm1@Isis.MsState.Edu (Marshall Karl Morgan) writes:
>>When the kernel checks to see if your CPU/coprocessor coupling
>>is OK, it prints the message `You have a bad 386/387 coupling.'
>>*before* it does the check. The message is terminated with \r,
>>a carriage return (^M). Then the kernel does the check and prints
>>`Math coprocessor using %s error reporting' with %s either
>>`exception 16' or `irq13' and this message overwrites the original
>>on the screen. Unfortunately, now that kernel printk messages also
>>arrive in syslogs and so on, you see the confusing concatenation
>>You have a bad 386/387 coupling.^MMath coprocessor using %s error...
Wouldn't it be easier to drop the ^M and change the texts to somewhat like:
Checking you 386/387 coupling ...\n
386/387 coupling ok using %s error reporting.\n
I think anybody would see what happened if the system hangs after the first
message! ;-)
>>--Malcolm
prefect