Date: Thu, 2 Mar 1995 08:23:06 +1100 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: jeffh@cybernetics.net, michael@cybernetics.net Cc: bugs@FreeBSD.org, questions@FreeBSD.org, sos@freefall.cdrom.com, wpaul@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: 021095-SNAP Message-ID: <199503012123.IAA11147@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>> I've not been able to boot the latest snapshot version on at least 3 >> machines at my disposal. They are all of varying configurations and >I had this same thing happen to me. What always get me by it (this may >be totally different from what's happening with you) is to repeatedly tap >the num lock key while it's booting. Recent bootstraps probe the keyboard. It would appear that the probe is simpler than possible. It only does about half of what the keyboard probe in syscons does. In particular, it doesn't read the second byte returned in response to the reset command. It doesn't test that the data it reads is ready, but the much longer delay than in syscons probably allows things to work. The syscons probe seems to be missing a test for the data to be ready in one place. Bruce
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