From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Jan 12 17: 6:57 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D793E1557A for ; Wed, 12 Jan 2000 17:06:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (harmony.village.org [10.0.0.6]) by rover.village.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA42189; Wed, 12 Jan 2000 18:06:51 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost.village.org [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.9.3/8.8.3) with ESMTP id SAA18182; Wed, 12 Jan 2000 18:07:13 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <200001130107.SAA18182@harmony.village.org> To: Gerhard Sittig Subject: Re: fbsdboot.exe can't load elf kernels Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 12 Jan 2000 20:37:27 +0100." <20000112203727.G7734@speedy.gsinet> References: <20000112203727.G7734@speedy.gsinet> <200001120828.AAA00633@mass.cdrom.com> Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2000 18:07:13 -0700 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <20000112203727.G7734@speedy.gsinet> Gerhard Sittig writes: : What's that bad about pure(!) DOS running in an early stage? To : make it clear: I'm NOT talking about "memory managers" running : already, having scrambled descriptor tables or enabling i386 : features (like virtual mode or special CPU's management : features). OLDER DOS versions can be trusted to not remap INT vectors, but newer versions do. When you remap the vectors and try to then boot FreeBSD you'll find that the vectors now point to arbitrary locations which tend to do bad things when this interrupt is called. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message