On Wed, 27 Sep 1995 20:59:26 +1000 (EST) 
 bryan collins <bryan@bwyan.anu.edu.au> wrote:

 > as: ../../i386/locore.s:314: no such 386 instruction: `cpuid'
 > as: ../../i386/locore.s:320: no such 386 instruction: `cpuid'
 > as: ../../i386/locore.s:1830: bad register name ('-138422672r6')
 > as: ../../i386/locore.s:1833: bad register name ('-138422672r6')
 > *** Error code 1
 > 
 > Do I need to compile other things first? like the compiler and loader etc?

You'll have to rebuild/reinstall your assembler.

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