Date: Wed, 1 Jul 1998 11:03:14 -0400 (EDT) From: Bill Paul <wpaul@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu> To: lcremean@tidalwave.net Cc: mike@smith.net.au, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 'fatal trap 12' on boot (smp and up) Message-ID: <199807011503.LAA06760@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu> In-Reply-To: <19980630201717.09849@st-lcremean.tidalwave.net> from "Lee Cremeans" at Jun 30, 98 08:17:17 pm
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Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, Lee Cremeans had to walk into mine and say: > On Tue, Jun 30, 1998 at 05:38:04PM -0400, Bill Paul wrote: > > I don't know if this is something to do with the BIOS or something > > peculiar about how the x86 CPUs work, but with these three bytes, > > it loads the FreeBSD boot floppy fine. I'm sure Bruce Evans will > > jump in eventually to explain everything, except why nobody thought > > to do this in the first place. > > It sounds like the BIOS to me; this is the first time I've ever seen a PC > that checks for a short jump and a NOP at the beginning of sector 0. What > kind of BIOS is this? It's an AMI BIOS. It says: AMIBIOS MOBILE '96 256KB BIOS OPTI FIRESTAR, 82c814 DOCKING C8T 65554 VGA, TI 1151 CARDBUS, ESS 1878/690/938 07/03/97 R1.06 If you press DEL for setup, you get this mouse-driven setup screen. After it passes the POST, it displays an 'Amarican Megatrends Power Management BIOS version 0.0' graphic logo for a few seconds before reading the boot blocks. > (and does that FCC certification sticker have an ID on > it? YOu can find the manufacturer using that, get the first 3 chars and go > to http://www.fcc.gov/oet/fccid. Ooo... good idea. The FCC ID is: L4PK7000S13. According to this page (which insists on using secure communications that don't work with Mozilla, I'll have you know), it's made by a company called Kapok Computer Co. in Taiwan. The form indicates that the original grant was mailed to a 'Sporton International Inc.' On the whole, it doesn't seem like a bad machine, except for this nonsense with the boot blocks. -Bill -- ============================================================================= -Bill Paul (212) 854-6020 | System Manager, Master of Unix-Fu Work: wpaul@ctr.columbia.edu | Center for Telecommunications Research Home: wpaul@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu | Columbia University, New York City ============================================================================= "It is not I who am crazy; it is I who am mad!" - Ren Hoek, "Space Madness" ============================================================================= To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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