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From: Charles Mott <cmott@srv.net>
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Subject: Re: Cyrix 6x686 M2 MMX P166+, and kernel panic bug Solved!
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On Tue, 25 Nov 1997, Simon Coggins wrote:
> 
> Okie since I had no replies from anyone that I didn't have before (Thank you
> to all those that did reply I tried them all and to no avail). 
> 
> So I decided to get down and dirty and hack the kernel.. Well with the help
> of the debugger and alittle poking around I found it..

Just curious... How did you specifically use a debugger with the kernel?
Are there any references for doing this?

  -- Charles Mott

P.S. It looks like you did a really good bit of detective work here.

> 
> The debugger reported:
> 
> Stop at identblue+0x31:      wrmsr
> 
> Trace showed:
> identblue()
> finishidentcpu()
> init386()
>