From owner-freebsd-current Sun Jun 28 15:30:06 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA18787 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sun, 28 Jun 1998 15:30:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp02.primenet.com (daemon@smtp02.primenet.com [206.165.6.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA18714 for ; Sun, 28 Jun 1998 15:29:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert@usr07.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp02.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA20561; Sun, 28 Jun 1998 15:29:46 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr07.primenet.com(206.165.6.207) via SMTP by smtp02.primenet.com, id smtpd020518; Sun Jun 28 15:29:37 1998 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr07.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA12693; Sun, 28 Jun 1998 15:29:20 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199806282229.PAA12693@usr07.primenet.com> Subject: Re: 'fatal trap 12' on boot (smp and up) To: joelh@gnu.org (Joel Ray Holveck) Date: Sun, 28 Jun 1998 22:29:20 +0000 (GMT) Cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com, thyerm@camtech.net.au, mike@smith.net.au, Matthew.Thyer@dsto.defence.gov.au, tlambert@primenet.com, jlemon@americantv.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199806281924.OAA09714@detlev.UUCP> from "Joel Ray Holveck" at Jun 28, 98 02:24:34 pm 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 > > So, given all of that, I will now work to remove all references to > > fbsdboot.exe in our installation instructions and simply recommend > > that a boot floppy be used in *all* installation cases. > > I'm rather unclear on whether you are serious in this idea or not. > But if so, don't some devices need initialization code that only > a config.sys / fbsdboot combination can provide? (I thought that was > in the handbook or something.) Yes. This is the only way to make some "compatability mode" sound cards function. It is also useful for emulation drivers to be loaded at the top of 640, and the memory size returned adjusted down, since BSD now respects this for APM support. 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