From owner-freebsd-current Sun Jun 28 04:23:02 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id EAA09178 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sun, 28 Jun 1998 04:23:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from isbalham.ist.co.uk (isbalham.ist.co.uk [192.31.26.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id EAA09120 for ; Sun, 28 Jun 1998 04:22:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rb@gid.co.uk) Received: from gid.co.uk (uucp@localhost) by isbalham.ist.co.uk (8.8.7/8.8.7) with UUCP id MAA02002; Sun, 28 Jun 1998 12:20:50 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from rb@gid.co.uk) Received: from [194.32.164.2] by seagoon.gid.co.uk; Sun, 28 Jun 1998 12:12:27 +0100 (BST) X-Sender: rb@194.32.164.1 Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <3595916B.D253EB3B@camtech.net.au> References: <199806270339.UAA19025@usr04.primenet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Sun, 28 Jun 1998 12:19:20 +0100 To: Matthew Thyer From: Bob Bishop Subject: Re: 'fatal trap 12' on boot (smp and up) Cc: Terry Lambert , FreeBSD CURRENT Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 10:12 am +0930 28/6/98, Matthew Thyer wrote: >Except it doesn't do what it should. > >A Win95/Win98 restart to MSDOS restarts the computer in DOS mode >but doesn't restores all vectors. > >Why Microsoft would want to do this I dont know. To make it more difficult to boot other OSs? No, can't be... Never ascribe to malice anything that can be explained by incompetence. -- Bob Bishop (0118) 977 4017 international code +44 118 rb@gid.co.uk fax (0118) 989 4254 between 0800 and 1800 UK To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message