From owner-freebsd-current Sun Jun 28 18:34:10 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA12368 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sun, 28 Jun 1998 18:34:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp04.primenet.com (daemon@smtp04.primenet.com [206.165.6.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA12295 for ; Sun, 28 Jun 1998 18:33:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert@usr02.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp04.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA18950; Sun, 28 Jun 1998 18:33:50 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr02.primenet.com(206.165.6.202) via SMTP by smtp04.primenet.com, id smtpd018905; Sun Jun 28 18:33:42 1998 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr02.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id SAA02146; Sun, 28 Jun 1998 18:33:32 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199806290133.SAA02146@usr02.primenet.com> Subject: Re: 'fatal trap 12' on boot (smp and up) To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Date: Mon, 29 Jun 1998 01:33:31 +0000 (GMT) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, thyerm@camtech.net.au, mike@smith.net.au, Matthew.Thyer@dsto.defence.gov.au, jlemon@americantv.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <549.899083430@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Jun 28, 98 06:23:50 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > So much for the lab full of Windows machines that can be booted into > > FreeBSD by double-clicking an icon on the desktop. > > It doesn't work that way. You've always had to launch it from a DOS > session, meaning you had to shut down to DOS and then run > fbsdboot.exe. I can plainly see you've never actually tried what you > are now advocating. :) It is not very well documented (except by me, in a posting in this thread), but you can force a Windows 95 box to "shutdown to dos" as part of the setting on a command line icon shortcut. This is typically used to run DOS games that won't run in a command window, even if it's a full screen command window. fbsdboot.exe runs perfectly well for me, from an icon on my desktop, on my old 486 EISA box running Windows 95. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message