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Date:      Thu, 2 Mar 1995 20:33:25 +0100 (MET)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        robsch@robkaos.ruhr.de (Robert Schien)
Cc:        freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD bugs list)
Subject:   Re: 021095-SNAP
Message-ID:  <199503021933.UAA21543@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <m0rkDGA-00098BC@robkaos.ruhr.de> from "Robert Schien" at Mar 2, 95 10:57:49 am

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As Robert Schien wrote:
> 
> I have made a similiar experience.
> I have to reset my machine a few times before FreeBSD will be booted.
> Never had this problem with 2.0-RELEASE.
> Why was the boot code changed?

Since it's now able to boot either off the VGA/kbd, or off the serial
console port.  The com port will be used if no kbd is found, so there
must be some probe for the kbd.  Unfortunately, the BIOS lets us alone
with this.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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