From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 9 21:49:47 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from server.baldwin.CX (john.geekhouse.net [64.81.6.51]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E176337BB84 for ; Fri, 9 Jun 2000 21:49:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from john@baldwin.cx) Received: (from john@localhost) by server.baldwin.CX (8.9.3/8.9.3) id AAA02607; Sat, 10 Jun 2000 00:49:34 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from john) Message-Id: <200006100449.AAA02607@server.baldwin.CX> X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20000610135248.S81728@wantadilla.lemis.com> Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2000 00:49:33 -0400 (EDT) Organization: BSD, Inc. From: John Baldwin To: Greg Lehey Subject: Re: installation problem on laptop (keyboard) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, Patrick Simon Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 10-Jun-00 Greg Lehey wrote: > On Saturday, 10 June 2000 at 0:16:23 -0400, Patrick Simon wrote: >> Hi, >> I got huge problem while installing FreeBSD 4.0 on my Echos P90 Laptop. I >> know that it is actually supported, but I'm still facing a big problem. When >> I start my installation with the first boot disk "kernel" ... my computer >> hangs after the following messages: >> >> /boot.config: -P >> Keyboard: no Press a key at the very beginning, and then type '-h' at the boot: prompt. After that it should work fine. >>>> FreeBSD/i386 BOOT >> Default: 0:fd(0,a)/boot/loader >> boot: >> >> BTX loader 1.00 BTX version is 1.01 >> >> -- stops right here -- >> >> Well I already figured out that my keyboard isn't supported. > > Interesting. Yes, you're right, but I haven't seen this before. Is > this the internal keyboard? Can you connect an external keyboard? If > so, does that help? I've seen it. Mostly on K7 motherboards with broken BIOSen. > Greg -- John Baldwin -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.cslab.vt.edu/~jobaldwi/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message