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Date:      Wed, 13 Dec 2000 16:08:22 -0800 (PST)
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        "Ronald F. Guilmette" <rfg@monkeys.com>
Cc:        Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.org>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Help! "Fatal trap 1: privledged instruction trap" while inst
Message-ID:  <XFMail.001213160822.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <40531.976750495@monkeys.com>

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On 13-Dec-00 Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
> In message <XFMail.001213152241.jhb@FreeBSD.org>, you wrote:
>>Install nasm and do the dd pipe Mike Smith suggested (the one on /dev/mem) so
>>we have a guess on how to work around this.
> 
> As I pointed out to Mike Smith, I can't install _anything_ because I haven't
> even installed FreeBSD yet.

Install FreeBSD 3.3, then install nasm and run the dd command. :)

>>Booting a 3.3 kernel with VM86 will probably crash as well.
> 
> I'm ignorant.  Please tell me, very exactly, how I would test that theory.
> I will then be very happy to try it and report back my results.

Compile a custom kernel with "options VM86" in the config file.

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