Subject: Re: [x86] single-stepping in DDB eventually causes machine to reboot?
To: Rafal Boni <rafal.boni@metatel.com>
From: John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>
List: port-i386
Date: 05/18/2000 12:35:29
[ I've re-added port-i386 since this is out of my depth ]

In message <200005181622.MAA05815@ninigret.metatel.office>, Rafal Boni writes:
>[...me, with my Gateway E5200 rebooting during PnPBios probe/attach...]
>
>- -> I'd suggest you try skipping those indices and see if it helps.
>
>It turns out your changes of 5/11 don't make a difference, as it still
>blows up somewhere in the BIOS call (or coming out of it) getting the
>14th node of 16.

Hmm; does it blow up when it tries to get the static configuration
(first) or the dynamic configuration (second)?

>Skipping that one makes everything work A-OK.  I really didn't have a
>chance to debug further (yes, I'm going on 5 minutes a day of looking
>at this).
>
>Do you know of any DOS/NT tools to get the PnPBIOS data?  It would be
>interesting to see what they claim is in that node that blows up.

Nope, I don't know. 

It'd be good to see the output.

--jhawk