Date: Fri, 08 May 1998 18:56:45 +0930 From: Matthew Thyer <thyerm@camtech.net.au> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Cc: Jonathan Lemon <jlemon@americantv.com>, mike@smith.net.au, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 'fatal trap 12' on boot (smp and up) Message-ID: <3552CFD5.C829866B@camtech.net.au> References: <199805070605.XAA11817@usr02.primenet.com>
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Thanks Terry, I thought there had to be a way.... I will try this tonight (Australian night!). Terry Lambert wrote: > > > 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 -- /=====================================================================\ |Work: Matthew.Thyer@dsto.defence.gov.au | Home: thyerm@camtech.net.au| \=====================================================================/ "If it is true that our Universe has a zero net value for all conserved quantities, then it may simply be a fluctuation of the vacuum of some larger space in which our Universe is imbedded. In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is simply one of those things which happen from time to time." E. P. Tryon from "Nature" Vol.246 Dec.14, 1973 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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