From owner-freebsd-current Wed May 6 17:07:26 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA21596 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 6 May 1998 17:07:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from antipodes.cdrom.com (a04m.cet.co.jp [202.32.65.68]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA21541 for ; Wed, 6 May 1998 17:07:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@antipodes.cdrom.com) Received: from antipodes.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by antipodes.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA00432; Wed, 6 May 1998 15:02:42 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199805062202.PAA00432@antipodes.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: Matthew Thyer cc: Mike Smith , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 'fatal trap 12' on boot (smp and up) In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 06 May 1998 22:13:22 +0930." <35505AEA.790DF80@camtech.net.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 06 May 1998 15:02:41 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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