Date: Wed, 5 Jul 1995 07:49:04 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: dennis@et.htp.com (dennis) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Booting with no kbd Message-ID: <199507050549.HAA04407@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199507050213.WAA08783@mail.htp.com> from "dennis" at Jul 4, 95 10:13:01 pm
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As dennis wrote: > > On 1 machine the system won't even try to load the kernel. With boot manager > installed it just sits at the prompt and never times out. As soon as the > keyboard is plugged in it continues ok. Without boot manager it just hangs > without ever displaying the initial boot: prompt. The machine boots MS-DOS > OK in the same configuration. Do you have perchance an older boot block that tries to boot with the serial console in this case? (This was _intention_.) > The other machine loads the kernel ok, but then hangs at the sc0 probe. As > soon as the kbd is plugged in, it continues. I've also noticed that sc0 hangs without a keyboard. Give the pcvt driver a try (until somebody has fixed the problem). I'm regularly booting machines without keyboard with pcvt. It's a bit slow during startup (since it tries to reset the kbd hardware but fails), but will work then. Btw., syscons could handle this back in 1.1.5.1. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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