From owner-freebsd-current Sun Jun 28 21:59:06 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA05883 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:59:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.camalott.com (root@mail.camalott.com [208.203.140.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA05878 for ; Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:59:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from joelh@gnu.org) Received: from detlev.UUCP (tex-75.camalott.com [208.229.74.75]) by mail.camalott.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id XAA30247; Sun, 28 Jun 1998 23:56:48 -0500 Received: (from joelh@localhost) by detlev.UUCP (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA00677; Sun, 28 Jun 1998 23:57:03 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from joelh) Date: Sun, 28 Jun 1998 23:57:03 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <199806290457.XAA00677@detlev.UUCP> To: tlambert@primenet.com CC: thyerm@camtech.net.au, jkh@time.cdrom.com, mike@smith.net.au, Matthew.Thyer@dsto.defence.gov.au, tlambert@primenet.com, jlemon@americantv.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG, devnull@gnu.org In-reply-to: <199806282229.PAA12716@usr07.primenet.com> (message from Terry Lambert on Sun, 28 Jun 1998 22:29:48 +0000 (GMT)) Subject: Re: 'fatal trap 12' on boot (smp and up) From: Joel Ray Holveck Reply-to: joelh@gnu.org References: <199806282229.PAA12716@usr07.primenet.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >>> What would be best is for fbsdboot.exe to return all vectors to >>> normal but I realise that cannot be done. >> It may be possible to add a tiny driver to the config.sys that records >> the vectors at that time, and fbsdboot can restore them then. I used >> the same basic technique to load and unload TSRs in batches in my >> sysop days. > What are the Linux people doing about it? I can't answer that; I haven't dealt with Linux for some time. I'm forwarding this to somebody who might know. Best, joelh -- Joel Ray Holveck - joelh@gnu.org - http://www.wp.com/piquan Fourth law of programming: Anything that can go wrong wi sendmail: segmentation violation - core dumped To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message