Date: Mon, 31 May 1999 21:01:52 -0700 From: Greg Shenaut <greg@bogslab.ucdavis.edu> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: "Keyboard: no" error Message-ID: <199906010401.VAA05497@deal1.bogs.org>
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I was recently trying to install 3.2 RELEASE on a new machine, and consistently got the following messages from "kern.flp": /boot.config: -P Keyboard: no >>FreeBSD/i386 BOOT Default: 0:fd(0,a)/boot/loader boot: - BTX loader 1.00 BTX version is 1.01 The floppy would make a bunch of head movement noises, and then nothing. I think the BIOS keyboard driver was still running, because the capslock light toggled and if I typed random keys, eventually I would get beeps back. There were no other signs of life that I could discern, and I tried this repeatedly, swapping various pieces of hardware in and out of the machine. After I had all of this fun that I could stand (and after trying the SNAPSHOT version of the floppies with identical results), I decided to try kern.flp in a known working machine. I got the same message as above, except it said "Keyboard: yes", and, more interestingly, it kept on going, eventually asking me to put in the mfsroot floppy and booting freebsd. Being slow, but eventually comprehending most things if they are spelled out in very large letters, I realized that there must be something about the keyboard I was using with the new machine that was preventing it from booting; I swapped keyboards, and lo and behold, it now booted up. My question is, what does "Keyboard: no/yes" signify? What kinds of keyboards will and won't work with the boot program? Inquiring minds want to know. -Greg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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