Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2000 16:08:22 -0800 (PST) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: "Ronald F. Guilmette" <rfg@monkeys.com> Cc: Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.org>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Help! "Fatal trap 1: privledged instruction trap" while inst Message-ID: <XFMail.001213160822.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <40531.976750495@monkeys.com>
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On 13-Dec-00 Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: > In message <XFMail.001213152241.jhb@FreeBSD.org>, 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 <jhb@FreeBSD.org> -- 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
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