What do panic messages mean?

[Root Boy Jim]

? Though it is possible that this would occur if the ROM BIOS was
? so stupid as to tell the kernel during boot that the FPU was present,
? but it wasn't.

? Usually, UNIX kernels are designed to not have FPU instructions of their own.

Usually UNIX kernels are designed not to have a `ROM BIOS'.
Mixing our metaphors, aren't we? :-)

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