From owner-freebsd-current Wed Jul 1 02:27:44 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA22813 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 1 Jul 1998 02:27:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from zippy.dyn.ml.org (haiti-87.ppp.hooked.net [206.169.228.87]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA22807 for ; Wed, 1 Jul 1998 02:27:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from garbanzo@hooked.net) Received: from localhost (garbanzo@localhost) by zippy.dyn.ml.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id CAA03586; Wed, 1 Jul 1998 02:27:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from garbanzo@hooked.net) X-Authentication-Warning: zippy.dyn.ml.org: garbanzo owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 1 Jul 1998 02:27:37 -0700 (PDT) From: Alex X-Sender: garbanzo@zippy.dyn.ml.org To: Terry Lambert cc: Joel Ray Holveck , thyerm@camtech.net.au, jkh@time.cdrom.com, mike@smith.net.au, Matthew.Thyer@dsto.defence.gov.au, jlemon@americantv.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 'fatal trap 12' on boot (smp and up) In-Reply-To: <199806282229.PAA12716@usr07.primenet.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 28 Jun 1998, Terry Lambert wrote: > > > 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? At last check Linux didn't attempt to detect memory beyond 64mb on the x86 platform. With this in mind I doubt that anything "opions VM86" enables is even used by the Linux kernel, thus allowing linload.exe to load Linux from Windows without a hitch. Theoretically speaking of course. - 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/ | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message