From owner-freebsd-current Sun Jun 28 19:10:40 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA16980 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sun, 28 Jun 1998 19:10:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from zippy.dyn.ml.org (garbanzo@spain-1.ppp.hooked.net [206.169.228.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA16974 for ; Sun, 28 Jun 1998 19:10:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from garbanzo@hooked.net) Received: from localhost (garbanzo@localhost) by zippy.dyn.ml.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id TAA19437; Sun, 28 Jun 1998 19:08:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from garbanzo@hooked.net) X-Authentication-Warning: zippy.dyn.ml.org: garbanzo owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 28 Jun 1998 19:08:35 -0700 (PDT) From: Alex X-Sender: garbanzo@zippy.dyn.ml.org To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" cc: Terry Lambert , thyerm@camtech.net.au, mike@smith.net.au, Matthew.Thyer@dsto.defence.gov.au, jlemon@americantv.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 'fatal trap 12' on boot (smp and up) In-Reply-To: <549.899083430@time.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 28 Jun 1998, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > 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. :) You can do that within Windows. Win95 still uses the old standby "PIF" files for DOS apps, and one of those settings is to force it to run in DOS mode. - alex | "Contrary to popular belief, penguins are not the salvation of modern | | technology. Neither do they throw parties for the urban proletariat." | | Powered by FreeBSD http://www.freebsd.org/ | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message