From owner-freebsd-current Mon Jun 29 03:51:16 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id DAA21318 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Mon, 29 Jun 1998 03:51:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from goliath.camtech.net.au (goliath.camtech.net.au [203.5.73.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id DAA21312 for ; Mon, 29 Jun 1998 03:51:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from thyerm@camtech.net.au) Received: from camtech.net.au (dialup-ad-1-16.camtech.net.au [203.28.0.48]) by goliath.camtech.net.au (8.8.5/8.8.2) with ESMTP id UAA15725; Mon, 29 Jun 1998 20:17:37 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <35977183.F5CA73F1@camtech.net.au> Date: Mon, 29 Jun 1998 20:20:43 +0930 From: Matthew Thyer X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alex CC: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 'fatal trap 12' on boot (smp and up) References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG BUT THIS DOESN'T WORK!!!! Try it. The shutdown to DOS results in modified vectors which results in a panic if "options VM86" is in your kernel AND you are running current. Alex wrote: > > 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/ | -- /=====================================================================\ |Work: Matthew.Thyer@dsto.defence.gov.au | Home: thyerm@camtech.net.au| \=====================================================================/ "If it is true that our Universe has a zero net value for all conserved quantities, then it may simply be a fluctuation of the vacuum of some larger space in which our Universe is imbedded. In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is simply one of those things which happen from time to time." E. P. Tryon from "Nature" Vol.246 Dec.14, 1973 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message