Date: Mon, 29 Jun 1998 20:51:18 +0930 From: Matthew Thyer <thyerm@camtech.net.au> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>, Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 'fatal trap 12' on boot (smp and up) Message-ID: <359778AE.CB92A1C3@camtech.net.au> References: <549.899083430@time.cdrom.com> <35976FE7.4AAE6B6C@camtech.net.au>
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Further clarification... It works if the icon is set up to restart Windows 95 to DOS to run this DOS program. But not if you have "options VM86" in the kernel. Matthew Thyer wrote: > > It does work without "options VM86" in the kernel > (under current this is). > > This is what I'm talking about... functionality will be lost > when "options VM86" becomes mandatory. > > Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > > > > So much for the lab full of Windows machines that can be booted into > > > FreeBSD by double-clicking an icon on the desktop. > > > > It doesn't work that way. You've always had to launch it from a DOS > > session, meaning you had to shut down to DOS and then run > > fbsdboot.exe. I can plainly see you've never actually tried what you > > are now advocating. :) > > > > - Jordan -- /=====================================================================\ |Work: Matthew.Thyer@dsto.defence.gov.au | Home: thyerm@camtech.net.au| \=====================================================================/ "If it is true that our Universe has a zero net value for all conserved quantities, then it may simply be a fluctuation of the vacuum of some larger space in which our Universe is imbedded. In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is simply one of those things which happen from time to time." E. P. Tryon from "Nature" Vol.246 Dec.14, 1973 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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