SCO UNIX V/386 3.2 with Intel 387 cooprocessor: What's wrong with it?

[Sean Eric Fagan]

In article <4998 at cui.unige.ch> dimitri at cui.unige.ch (Dimitri Konstantas) writes:
>I have an AST 386/25 and I tried to install the 387 cooprocessor,
>but it seems that the SCO UNIX does not like it!
>It panics at random moments (probably because of some signal) and it cannot
>boot.
>Has anybody installed the 387 cooprocessor with SCO UNIX V?
>Does is works? Were there any problems?

Tons of people have '387s in their machines running sco *nix.  kithrup
recently got a '387 clone, and is doing fine.

A coworker recently had a similar problem, and my response was:  does the
machine boot DOS?  Does the machine recognize the fpu during boot time
(*before* unix boots, that is)?  It's possible some of the motherboard
jumpers and switches are not configured properly, which could cause
problems.

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