From owner-freebsd-current Fri Jun 26 22:57:09 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA18435 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Fri, 26 Jun 1998 22:57:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.camalott.com (root@[208.203.140.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA18428 for ; Fri, 26 Jun 1998 22:57:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from joelh@gnu.org) Received: from detlev.UUCP (tex-80.camalott.com [208.229.74.80] (may be forged)) by mail.camalott.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id AAA29536; Sat, 27 Jun 1998 00:55:57 -0500 Received: (from joelh@localhost) by detlev.UUCP (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA01114; Sat, 27 Jun 1998 00:55:41 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from joelh) Date: Sat, 27 Jun 1998 00:55:41 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <199806270555.AAA01114@detlev.UUCP> To: thyerm@camtech.net.au CC: mike@smith.net.au, Matthew.Thyer@dsto.defence.gov.au, tlambert@primenet.com, jlemon@americantv.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: <35943142.6B9C1C5D@camtech.net.au> (message from Matthew Thyer on Sat, 27 Jun 1998 09:09:46 +0930) Subject: Re: 'fatal trap 12' on boot (smp and up) From: Joel Ray Holveck References: <199806261427.HAA07118@antipodes.cdrom.com> <35943142.6B9C1C5D@camtech.net.au> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Now a command line only boot of Windows 98 (i.e. hitting F8 before > Windows boots and choosing command line only from the menu) cannot > run fbsdboot.exe without the crash just as I feared. > I'm sorry Mike but your answer "boot from a floppy" wont be any > good when everyones floppies have been formatted with Windows 98! A fixit floppy would be perfectly useful. For serious experimenters who (a) manage to, through experiments, completely trash their HDDs, and (b) manage to, through fsdb or other options, recover it: I recommend keeping a box next to the computer as an emergency box. (Mine only differs slightly from the one described here.) It contains: 1. A Win95 boot disk with fdisk, format, sys, xcopy, and a few other similar tools, a CD-ROM driver, Norton's Disk Edit, and your tape restore program (this may have to be split into several disks); 2. A FreeBSD fixit disk; 3. Forefront Troubleshooter, a hardware diagnostics program; 4. A few bolts, jumpers, and one each of the vital cables; 5. A $20 bill; 6. A small (1.25 lb capacity) halon 1211 fire extinguisher; 7. Final contengency backups (inflatable bat, abacus, and Baskin-Robbins Ice Cream gift certificate). In a separate box I keep my backup tapes, as well as a floppy with a recent copy of the Win95 registry, vital .ini files, autoexec.bat and config.sys, the FAT, and the directory tree (with LFNs and cluster numbers). The floppy used to get updated every week, but now it only gets updated once a month. (If I use Win95 that often.) If you have to use the floppy, you're probably in worse shape than you ever want to be again. Happy hacking, joelh -- Joel Ray Holveck - joelh@gnu.org - http://www.wp.com/piquan Fourth law of programming: Anything that can go wrong wi sendmail: segmentation violation - core dumped To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message