[lug] Docs on Traps during boot? (Somewhat OT)

[D. Stimits]

Elyse Grasso wrote:
> 
> Is there a list somewhere of the kinds of traps you can get when something
> goes wrong during boot?
> 
> On a machine with an Award bios, after trying to upgrade an NT server
> partition to Win2K server, the machine is unable to boot to the hard drive
> (at one point the bios seemed unable to recognize the hard drive at boot time
> at all).
> 
> Running 'fdisk /mbr' changed the display from Trap 001 (plus register dump) to
> Trap 006 (plus Register dump).
> 
> Any pointers to appropriate docs would be gratefully accepted.
> 
> I know this probably means the machine is dying, but it would be nice to get
> it to limp along for a while longer... or at least know which piece of
> hardware needs replacing most: the motherboard/disk controller, or the drive.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Elyse
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Probably the most knowledgable person in that area is H. Peter Anvin, he
makes the syslinux package for booting. I'd look up syslinux, then go
from there.

D. Stimits, stimits at idcomm.com