Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 14:28:05 -0700 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com> Cc: Chris Shenton <cshenton@uucom.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4.0-RELEASE ASUS K7V floppy boot fails -- register dump Message-ID: <200004272128.OAA00669@mass.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 27 Apr 2000 12:02:14 PDT." <749.956862134@localhost>
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> > Got a new ASUS K7V with AMD K7 700Mhz processor trying to install > > FreeBSD-4.0 from the kern.flp on ftp.freebsd.org. It dumps the > > registers immediately after saying > > Mount the kern floppy on another FreeBSD box and do some surgery on > it along the following lines: > > mount /dev/fd0 /mnt > rm /mnt/boot.config > umount /mnt > > That should keep the -P flag out of your boot line and ensure that the > keyboard is properly detected. I think our use of -P was over-eager > since there are motherboards which don't play nice with it, like this > one. Actually, this is entirely irrelevant. The keyboard detection code is passive, and simply reads a flag in low memory (which this board is setting correctly). I don't have a good idea of what's going wrong here, but it's the current spanner in getting your build box out of my hair. 8( -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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