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Date:      Wed, 22 Sep 2004 16:44:48 -0400
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Non ACPI boot broken?
Message-ID:  <200409221644.48602.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20040922153140.GA87249@peter.osted.lan>
References:  <20040922153140.GA87249@peter.osted.lan>

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On Wednesday 22 September 2004 11:31 am, Peter Holm wrote:
> http://www.holm.cc/stress/log/cons77.html

FAQ, the 0x58 CS selector is the clue.  Somehow the BIOS doesn't realize it's 
in vm86 mode rather than real mode and tries to write to the code segment, 
which is not possible in vm86 mode.

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John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>  <><  http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/
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