From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 18 15:02:57 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id PAA00848 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 18 Dec 1997 15:02:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from davinci.gwis.com (davinci.gwis.com [209.57.72.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id PAA00838 for ; Thu, 18 Dec 1997 15:02:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from droberts@davinci.gwis.com) Received: from localhost (droberts@localhost) by davinci.gwis.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) with SMTP id SAA00189 for ; Thu, 18 Dec 1997 18:02:46 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from droberts@davinci.gwis.com) Date: Thu, 18 Dec 1997 18:02:45 -0500 (EST) From: Dan Roberts Reply-To: droberts@gwis.com To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: booting without a keyboard hangs Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Clear out of the blue today, my FreeBSD 2.2.5 system decided to stop booting with no keyboard. I have a small dos partition on the machine and can give the following symptoms: Without the keyboard, booting into BSD mode hangs right after the boot manager times out and auto selects FreeBSD. If I plug a keyboard in after that, it continues. When booting with DOS as default, it doesn't hang at all without the keyboard. I don't know what's made it change after all these months, but I would like to disable the keyboard probe. I've seen reports on the list of endless loops related to this, and I think I might be a victim. Can anyone describe to to fix this? Thanks! -- Dan Roberts, http://gwis.com/~droberts Gateway to Internet Services sysadmin/ircadmin, barovia.oh.us.dal.net for Internet access in NE Ohio http://barovia.dal.net - Strahd on DALnet http://www.gwis.com