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Date:      Sat, 10 Jun 2000 00:49:33 -0400 (EDT)
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG>
To:        Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, Patrick Simon <mailsimon@gmx.net>
Subject:   Re: installation problem on laptop (keyboard)
Message-ID:  <200006100449.AAA02607@server.baldwin.CX>
In-Reply-To: <20000610135248.S81728@wantadilla.lemis.com>

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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

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