Date: Mon, 28 Jul 1997 12:46:36 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: jehamby@be.com (Jake Hamby) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Anyone tried VirtualPC with FreeBSD? Message-ID: <199707280316.MAA03611@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <19970727194659.PM-3fwlm6so@Adam.BeOS> from Jake Hamby at "Jul 27, 97 07:46:59 pm"
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Jake Hamby stands accused of saying: > Just for fun, I tried to boot FreeBSD 2.2.2 from within the VirtualPC > emulator for MacOS, which claims to simulate a full Intel Pentium PC at > the hardware level. It can run unmodified version of Windows 95, NT, > OS/2, and NextStep, and so I assumed it wouldn't have much trouble with > FreeBSD. > > Unfortunately, immediately after loading the kernel, FreeBSD panicked with > this error: > > Fatal trap 1: privileged instruction fault while in kernel mode > > instruction ptr = 0x8:0xf01b99aa Where is this in the kernel? Are you booting an installation disk? If so, which one? Suck the kernel off the disk, and say : nm kernel | sort | less and send us the symbols from around the IP above. > Obviously, this is a bug in Connectix's CPU emulator. But I'm curious if > anyone could give any information off-hand as to what they might be doing > wrong that would trigger such an error from the FreeBSD kernel. Not _necessarily_ "obviously"; it's possible that the emulator just does something "odd" that's upsetting the kernel. > Jake Hamby -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[
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