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Date:      Wed, 12 Jan 2000 18:07:13 -0700
From:      Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
To:        Gerhard Sittig <Gerhard.Sittig@gmx.net>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: fbsdboot.exe can't load elf kernels 
Message-ID:  <200001130107.SAA18182@harmony.village.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 12 Jan 2000 20:37:27 %2B0100." <20000112203727.G7734@speedy.gsinet> 
References:  <20000112203727.G7734@speedy.gsinet>  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0001121004110.2653-100000@assa> <200001120828.AAA00633@mass.cdrom.com> 

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In message <20000112203727.G7734@speedy.gsinet> Gerhard Sittig writes:
: What's that bad about pure(!) DOS running in an early stage?  To
: make it clear: I'm NOT talking about "memory managers" running
: already, having scrambled descriptor tables or enabling i386
: features (like virtual mode or special CPU's management
: features).

OLDER DOS versions can be trusted to not remap INT vectors, but newer
versions do.  When you remap the vectors and try to then boot FreeBSD
you'll find that the vectors now point to arbitrary locations which
tend to do bad things when this interrupt is called.

Warner


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