Date: Wed, 06 May 1998 15:02:41 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Matthew Thyer <thyerm@camtech.net.au> Cc: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 'fatal trap 12' on boot (smp and up) Message-ID: <199805062202.PAA00432@antipodes.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 06 May 1998 22:13:22 %2B0930." <35505AEA.790DF80@camtech.net.au>
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> It's sad to see that fbsdboot.exe will effectively become unusable > after VM86 becomes a mandatory option. > > Am I correct in that assumption ?? No. As I attempted to previously explain, fbsdboot only works correctly if you have booted "clean". > I was trying to use it from DOS7 (Win95 DOS) after Win95 had restarted > into DOS to run my 'DOS' program. > > Maybe it still works for the case where the user chooses 'command > line only' from the Win95 boot menu or boots a DOS7 floppy but I > haven't tried these yet. It should still work in these cases, as long as DOS 7 has not corrupted the BIOS vector tables. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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