Date: Tue, 30 Jun 1998 23:21:02 -0500 (CDT) From: Joel Ray Holveck <joelh@gnu.org> To: thyerm@camtech.net.au Cc: garbanzo@hooked.net, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 'fatal trap 12' on boot (smp and up) Message-ID: <199807010421.XAA02799@detlev.UUCP> In-Reply-To: <3598D7F6.7A276757@camtech.net.au> (message from Matthew Thyer on Tue, 30 Jun 1998 21:50:06 %2B0930) References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980628190751.308H-100000@zippy.dyn.ml.org> <35977183.F5CA73F1@camtech.net.au> <199806291447.JAA02569@detlev.UUCP> <3598D7F6.7A276757@camtech.net.au>
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>> I'm not in a position to test this, but I will comment that if you >> mark the radio button for a different config.sys / autoexec.bat, then >> Win95 will do a warm boot before loading the program. There may be a >> problem running win /b after that. (win /b is what restores your old >> config.sys and autoexec.bat, and then reboots the computer again after >> your program has finished. It is automatically placed at the end of >> autoexec.bat in the per-program version.) > Now the use of a different autoexec.bat / config.sys may help > me with what I'd like to do (and Terry with his lab of machines). > Possibly some combination of memory manager with appropriate > switches might result in unmodifed vectors. > Maybe MS uses a memory manager anyway if you have no alternate > config.sys / autoexec.bat listed. > If I have any luck messing with this I'll let people know. Win95 loads himem.sys in a standard boot if no XMS manager is loaded. But I don't *think* that it loads himem.sys in an alternate config.sys boot. -- Joel Ray Holveck - joelh@gnu.org - http://www.wp.com/piquan Fourth law of programming: Anything that can go wrong wi sendmail: segmentation violation - core dumped To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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