From owner-freebsd-current Wed May 6 23:05:53 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA20815 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 6 May 1998 23:05:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp01.primenet.com (daemon@smtp01.primenet.com [206.165.6.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA20807 for ; Wed, 6 May 1998 23:05:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert@usr02.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp01.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA24358; Wed, 6 May 1998 23:05:35 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr02.primenet.com(206.165.6.202) via SMTP by smtp01.primenet.com, id smtpd024334; Wed May 6 23:05:30 1998 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr02.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id XAA11817; Wed, 6 May 1998 23:05:24 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199805070605.XAA11817@usr02.primenet.com> Subject: Re: 'fatal trap 12' on boot (smp and up) To: jlemon@americantv.com (Jonathan Lemon) Date: Thu, 7 May 1998 06:05:24 +0000 (GMT) Cc: thyerm@camtech.net.au, mike@smith.net.au, current@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <19980506104909.14890@right.PCS> from "Jonathan Lemon" at May 6, 98 10:49:09 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I'm still investigating (sorry for not replying earlier) but it looks > like that is effectively the case. Once a Win/DOS program hooks the > BIOS vector, all bets are off. Unless: > > - there a way to force Win/DOS to "un-hook" themselves? > - there an INTx call or something that can reset the > interrupt vector table to a "pristine" setate? > > I won't have time to look at this for about 2 weeks or so, until finals > are over. However, one possibility would be to set some sort of "flag" > from fbsdboot to indicate that the BIOS is unavailable. My suggestion would be to run the icon as "real mode". I almost posted this last night, but didn't, because I was lacking the data you just supplied. The magic incantation should be: Right-button Properties Memory Thwen check the "run in real mode" (or similarly named) checkbox on the icon. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message