On Thu, 21 Nov 2002, Mitsuru IWASAKI wrote: > Nate Lawson wrote: > > Can someone get the memory detection (int 12) back to stable? The > > conservative approach seems to only have the limitation of "losing" 640k > > whereas the experimental approach causes panics. > > > > Can we take such critical experiments out of the base system and let them > > mature as a patch? I heard something about a release coming up or > > something like that. > > I already got the memory detection (int 12) back to STABLE and CURRENT. > After all, nothing had changed there except for having new loader tunable. > > If you find 'Fatal trap 12: page fault while in vm86 mode' message at > early kernel boot stage, your BIOS probably has broken INT 12H (in my > case, it was not implemented by BIOS writer). > The loader tunable 'hw.hasbrokenint12' is workaround for it. > Try this at loader prompt: > ok set hw.hasbrokenint12="1"
Ah, thank you very much. I didn't know this had been reverted. The tunable should be documented in the errata section as I'm sure other users would appreciate that. -Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
