From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 1 04:14:40 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D173E16A479 for ; Fri, 1 Jun 2007 04:14:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from perryh@pluto.rain.com) Received: from agora.rdrop.com (agora.rdrop.com [199.26.172.34]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B2DB313C4B9 for ; Fri, 1 Jun 2007 04:14:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from perryh@pluto.rain.com) Received: from agora.rdrop.com (66@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by agora.rdrop.com (8.13.1/8.12.7) with ESMTP id l514Edah060627 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Thu, 31 May 2007 21:14:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from perryh@pluto.rain.com) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by agora.rdrop.com (8.13.1/8.12.9/Submit) with UUCP id l514EcEt060626; Thu, 31 May 2007 21:14:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fbsd61 ([192.168.200.61]) by pluto.rain.com (4.1/SMI-4.1-pluto-M2060407) id AA01641; Thu, 31 May 07 21:12:22 PDT Date: Thu, 31 May 2007 21:16:10 -0700 From: perryh@pluto.rain.com To: coolzone@it.dk Message-Id: <465f9d8a.W5x7vfZFzMgA48g/%perryh@pluto.rain.com> References: <4e3998c7e72.465ed931@broadpark.no> <18014.49617.224340.697794@jerusalem.litteratus.org> <465EC558.9070102@netfence.it> <20070531135651.GA988@home> <20070531185521.417ec0e2.coolzone@it.dk> In-Reply-To: <20070531185521.417ec0e2.coolzone@it.dk> User-Agent: nail 11.25 7/29/05 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: OT: Re: The worst error message in history belongs to... BIND9! X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2007 04:14:40 -0000 > > Favourite worst written error message in history: > > > > Keyboard not found. Press F1 to continue. > > I have always loved this one!! Who made that up!? Someone at IBM. That's what the original IBM PC, PC-AT, and (presumably) PC-XT displayed if the keyboard was dead or not plugged in. It was probably a case of modular code: any problem in POST would display a message and return a "fail" status, and the generic code would append "Press F1 to continue." and wait. Not a bad idea at all -- certainly better than blindly trying to boot the machine without giving the operator a chance to decide what to do about the problem -- but this particular combination does have a chicken- egg aspect :(