Subject: Re: port-i386/1684: inability to boot -current i386 kernel
To: None <netbsd-bugs@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Christoph Badura <bad@flatlin.ka.sub.org>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 10/25/1995 12:45:00
Alasdair Baird writes:

>	It appears on my machine that the segment register fs
>	has a value placed in it prior to NetBSD booting (perhaps
>	by my boot selector) that never gets cleared.

The value is probably put there by the BIOS.  Several BIOSes do this.
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