From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 14 17:43: 6 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from luke.cpl.net (luke.cpl.net [192.216.136.195]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C85B37B536 for ; Wed, 14 Jun 2000 17:43:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from megadeth@luke.cpl.net) Received: (from megadeth@localhost) by luke.cpl.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id RAA39906; Wed, 14 Jun 2000 17:43:02 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 17:43:00 -0700 From: Shawn Ramsey To: stephen Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 550mhz Athlon on FIC SD11 mobo Message-ID: <20000614174300.A38485@luke.cpl.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Jun 14, 2000 at 05:06:37PM -0700, stephen wrote: > Hi, > I used freebsd since 3.3. recently i upgraded my motherboard to a fic sd11 and my processor to a 550mhz athlon. now i can't seem to install freebsd. i've tried booting from the cd and using boot disks. it can't detect the keyboard for some reason. it's a ps2 keyboard. it does the baton thing and says "Detecting keyboard: no". then it goes into the BTX loader. from there it just kinda locks up and sits there. i generally have to reboot usin the power button when that happens. now i'm usin slack linux but it's just not the same. i really want to get back into freebsd. do u have any suggestions or fixes for this problem? > thanks I had the same problem with same motherboard, only 600mhz Athlon. Try holding down the numlock key through the boot process. (from power on until freebsd starts booting. That worked for me. Or maybe it was insert. Its been so long I don't remember. But I think its one of those. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message