From owner-freebsd-current Tue Jun 30 21:21:39 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA19233 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 30 Jun 1998 21:21:39 -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 VAA19190 for ; Tue, 30 Jun 1998 21:21:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from joelh@gnu.org) Received: from detlev.UUCP (tex-54.camalott.com [208.229.74.54]) by mail.camalott.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id XAA05270; Tue, 30 Jun 1998 23:20:47 -0500 Received: (from joelh@localhost) by detlev.UUCP (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA02799; Tue, 30 Jun 1998 23:21:02 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from joelh) Date: Tue, 30 Jun 1998 23:21:02 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <199807010421.XAA02799@detlev.UUCP> To: thyerm@camtech.net.au CC: garbanzo@hooked.net, current@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: <3598D7F6.7A276757@camtech.net.au> (message from Matthew Thyer on Tue, 30 Jun 1998 21:50:06 +0930) Subject: Re: 'fatal trap 12' on boot (smp and up) From: Joel Ray Holveck Reply-to: joelh@gnu.org References: <35977183.F5CA73F1@camtech.net.au> <199806291447.JAA02569@detlev.UUCP> <3598D7F6.7A276757@camtech.net.au> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >> 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.) > Now the use of a different autoexec.bat / config.sys may help > me with what I'd like to do (and Terry with his lab of machines). > Possibly some combination of memory manager with appropriate > switches might result in unmodifed vectors. > Maybe MS uses a memory manager anyway if you have no alternate > config.sys / autoexec.bat listed. > If I have any luck messing with this I'll let people know. Win95 loads himem.sys in a standard boot if no XMS manager is loaded. But I don't *think* that it loads himem.sys in an alternate config.sys boot. -- 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