Date: Mon, 29 Jun 1998 09:47:03 -0500 (CDT) From: Joel Ray Holveck <joelh@gnu.org> To: thyerm@camtech.net.au Cc: garbanzo@hooked.net, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 'fatal trap 12' on boot (smp and up) Message-ID: <199806291447.JAA02569@detlev.UUCP> In-Reply-To: <35977183.F5CA73F1@camtech.net.au> (message from Matthew Thyer on Mon, 29 Jun 1998 20:20:43 %2B0930) References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980628190751.308H-100000@zippy.dyn.ml.org> <35977183.F5CA73F1@camtech.net.au>
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>>>> 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. > 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. I'm not in a position to test this, but I will comment that if you mark the radio button for a different config.sys / autoexec.bat, then Win95 will do a warm boot before loading the program. There may be a problem running win /b after that. (win /b is what restores your old config.sys and autoexec.bat, and then reboots the computer again after your program has finished. It is automatically placed at the end of autoexec.bat in the per-program version.) Happy hacking, 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
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