For the benefit of fellow-sufferers:
I figured it out. It was a plain old DOS problem rather than
Etherboot/FreeBSD.
I took the following lines out of my boot floppy's config.sys:
device=himem.sys /testmem:off
dos=high,umb
stacks=9,256
... and the kernel boots fine.
Now I just need to get my conf files sorted....
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Fitzgibbon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, December 10, 2000 7:11 PM
Subject: Etherboot 4.6.1 and FreeBSD 4.2 Release
> Anyone know if this combination works?
>
> I'm trying to use Etherboot 4.6.1's ne.com, (vanilla compile from the
ports
> collection), to diskless boot a 4.2 Release kernel.
>
> On the client, ne.com recognizes the kernel as FreeBSD/ELF and loads it
from
> the server. However, on switching to the kernel I immediately get the
> following:
>
> Fatal trap 12: page fault while in vm86 mode...
> fault code = user read, page not present...
> panic page fault
>
> ... and I'm hosed.
>
> The kernel is compiled with the BOOTP options, (but it looks like its not
> even loaded properly).
>
> Any suggestions/alternatives would be appreciated.
> Cheers.
>
>
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