From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 13 16: 8:34 2000 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 13 16:08:30 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pike.osd.bsdi.com (pike.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.222]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1DCD137B69C; Wed, 13 Dec 2000 16:08:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from laptop.baldwin.cx (john@jhb-laptop.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.241]) by pike.osd.bsdi.com (8.11.1/8.9.3) with ESMTP id eBE08CE48360; Wed, 13 Dec 2000 16:08:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <40531.976750495@monkeys.com> Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2000 16:08:22 -0800 (PST) From: John Baldwin To: "Ronald F. Guilmette" Subject: Re: Help! "Fatal trap 1: privledged instruction trap" while inst Cc: Mike Smith , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.org Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 13-Dec-00 Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: > In message , you wrote: >>Install nasm and do the dd pipe Mike Smith suggested (the one on /dev/mem) so >>we have a guess on how to work around this. > > As I pointed out to Mike Smith, I can't install _anything_ because I haven't > even installed FreeBSD yet. Install FreeBSD 3.3, then install nasm and run the dd command. :) >>Booting a 3.3 kernel with VM86 will probably crash as well. > > I'm ignorant. Please tell me, very exactly, how I would test that theory. > I will then be very happy to try it and report back my results. Compile a custom kernel with "options VM86" in the config file. -- John Baldwin -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message