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Date:      Mon, 4 May 1998 14:54:05 +1000 (EST)
From:      John Birrell <jb@cimlogic.com.au>
To:        thyerm@camtech.net.au (Matthew Thyer)
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: 'fatal trap 12' on boot (smp and up)
Message-ID:  <199805040454.OAA16671@cimlogic.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <354D3EE3.825EF59E@camtech.net.au> from Matthew Thyer at "May 4, 98 01:36:59 pm"

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Matthew Thyer wrote:
> Is anyone working on this problem ?
> 
> I like to be able to boot FreeBSD from Win95 with the icon I have
> (which runs fbsdboot.exe in DOS mode).
> 
> However I can't do this if I have options VM86 in the kernel.

Have you got the DDB option in too? If so, is it trapping an invalid
segment register? I am seeing this with USER_LDT and a process forking
ang exec'ing gcc. The user LDT is supposedly being cleared (at least
that's how the code reads). I don't know what the answer is. Still
looking.. With VM86, YMMV though.


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John Birrell - jb@cimlogic.com.au; jb@freebsd.org http://www.cimlogic.com.au/
CIMlogic Pty Ltd, GPO Box 117A, Melbourne Vic 3001, Australia +61 418 353 137

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