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Date:      Fri, 23 Nov 2001 14:57:59 -0800
From:      Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>
To:        Guido van Rooij <guido@gvr.org>
Cc:        freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: fail to install 4.4 on omnibook 500
Message-ID:  <20011123145759.A9650@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu>
In-Reply-To: <20011123233211.A187@gvr.gvr.org>; from guido@gvr.org on Fri, Nov 23, 2001 at 11:32:11PM %2B0100
References:  <20011123233211.A187@gvr.gvr.org>

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On Fri, Nov 23, 2001 at 11:32:11PM +0100, Guido van Rooij wrote:
> I got an omnibook 500 today but it completely fails to install FreeBSD.
> I have it with a floppy drive. Booting from kern and mfsroot goes fine,
> but just after probing ad0, the system kind of hangs.
> I disabled all unnecessaryy devices and upgraded the BIOS.
>=20
> With 'kind of hangs' I mean that ctrl-alt-del does not work, and
> also scroll lock will not work (though the scrolllock led is turned on).
> Ctrl-alt-esc gives the No debugger in kernel message and that is about it.
>=20
> Does anyone recogize this? Anyone has other options?=20

There seems to be an odd interaction with the 4.4 keyboard probe and
some BIOS versions.  If you use the keyboard (say, to select the floppy
as a boot device) the system will detect the keyboard.  Otherwise, it
doesn't and boots to the serial console.  I haven't had any problems
with current and 4.3 worked as well.  I think a BIOS upgrade helped, but
I can't remember for sure since current didn't have problems.

-- Brooks

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