Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 10:08:51 -0800 From: James Brown <jb@syndicate.net> To: Evren Yurtesen <yurtesen@turkey.ispro.net.tr> Cc: Brad Benson <brad@cyberix.com>, freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: (2) no keyboard, no boot Message-ID: <36D2EEB3.7E97C7D3@syndicate.net> References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990223075214.18650B-100000@turkey.ispro.net.tr>
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> > if you have award bios, > get into the "standart CMOS setup" > and then set "halt on:" option to "No errors" > it would work.... > I have no clue if you have another manufacturers bios sorry :( > let me know if it works... > Evren i've got ami bios with "F1 on any error" disabled. > > > > Knowing the bios's in some of those older 386 and 486 machines I > > would guess that the bios is the problem. Where does the boot stop? > > What message does the machine give you? If it's before you get a > > "boot:" prompt, it's probably the computer not FreeBSD. yes, it does stop before the boot: prompt. the last screen is the hardware inventory, the last two lines are "256 kb cache memory" and "160mhz cpu clock." it will sit there forever but i once i plug in a keyboard, it goes straight to the boot: prompt. thanks for the quick responses everybody! james To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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