Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2010 17:51:05 -0500 From: "Warren A. Hunt Jr." <hunt@cs.utexas.edu> To: brucec@FreeBSD.org Cc: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-usb@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: kern/144938: [keyboard] [boot] Boot Failure with Apple (MB869LL/A) Keyboard Message-ID: <201003212251.o2LMp5pb022644@elgin.cs.utexas.edu>
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Hello Mr. Cran, Summary: I don't understand why, but now everything works. > Does any more information get displayed with a > verbose boot ("boot -v")? Indeed, it does. But, now it boots. Arragh! Since my last message, I have re-booted my system at least 10 times, and everything seems to work. I have re-booted with regular boot (no "boot -v"), and it works. I have powered down and tried again -- and it works. Six weeks ago, I had this same problem (using this same Apple keyboard) on another FreeBSD 8.0 system (based on a SuperMicro "c2sbx" motherboard), which I never solved. So, I was worried that somehow Apple's new keyboard was not supported by FreeBSD 8.0. For the moment, on my ZOTAC IONITX-A-U board, my problem has disappeared. I must have failed to boot with my Apple keyboard at least 20 times over the last month. The only thing I changed was in the BIOS -- I stopped the "quick boot" sequence, instead specifying the that the full complement of BIOS tests, such as the memory test, should be performed. Weird. I'll try it another 20 times or so -- and I'll try again on my SuperMicro system at work. Thank you for responding. And, thank you very much for your hard work on FreeBSD. I use FreeBSD whenever I can. I use it as an example in my classes, and I make sure that my research tools operate correctly on FreeBSD. Cheers, Warren ++++++ Dr. Warren A. Hunt, Jr. Professor Department of Computer Science 1 University Station, M/S C0500 The University of Texas Austin, TX 78712-0233 E-mail: hunt@cs.utexas.edu Tel: +1 512 471 9748 FAX: +1 512 471 8885 URL: http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/hunt
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