Date: Sun, 28 Jun 1998 22:45:59 +0930 From: Matthew Thyer <thyerm@camtech.net.au> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, Matthew Thyer <Matthew.Thyer@dsto.defence.gov.au>, Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>, Jonathan Lemon <jlemon@americantv.com>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 'fatal trap 12' on boot (smp and up) Message-ID: <3596420F.6DBD766F@camtech.net.au> References: <6723.898994542@time.cdrom.com>
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Accepted. I haven't read the install docs for a long time. I'm just slight pissed that we are about to lose functionality which exists today (i.e. without "options VM86" in the kernel). That combined with the fact that I had zero sleep last night has made me over-react a bit. I am not unhappy with FreeBSD, I just hate losing functionality. I'm sorry I have caused so much traffic on the list but maybe it's been worth it to get the message out about our reliance on these vectors being unmodified. Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > > Somewhere it will have to be documented that Windows 98 users > > will have to make the FreeBSD boot floppy and boot from that > > to install. > > It's documented all over the place that this is how Win* people should > install the system - the whole fbsdboot.exe thing was provided just as > a clever trick for making it even easier in some circumstances and > it's always been plugged as a last resort, especially since it > interacts so poorly with extended memory managers and always has. > > - 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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