Date: Sat, 07 Jul 2007 02:26:57 +0200 From: "Daniel A. A." <alive@dienub.org> To: perryh@pluto.rain.com Cc: coolzone@it.dk, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: OT: Re: The worst error message in history belongs to... BIND9! Message-ID: <468EDDD1.1010201@dienub.org> In-Reply-To: <465f9d8a.W5x7vfZFzMgA48g/%perryh@pluto.rain.com> References: <4e3998c7e72.465ed931@broadpark.no> <18014.49617.224340.697794@jerusalem.litteratus.org> <465EC558.9070102@netfence.it> <20070531135651.GA988@home> <20070531185521.417ec0e2.coolzone@it.dk> <465f9d8a.W5x7vfZFzMgA48g/%perryh@pluto.rain.com>
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perryh@pluto.rain.com wrote: >>> Favourite worst written error message in history: >>> >>> Keyboard not found. Press F1 to continue. >>> >> I have always loved this one!! Who made that up!? >> > > Someone at IBM. That's what the original IBM PC, PC-AT, and > (presumably) PC-XT displayed if the keyboard was dead or not > plugged in. > > It was probably a case of modular code: any problem in POST would > display a message and return a "fail" status, and the generic code > would append "Press F1 to continue." and wait. Not a bad idea at > all -- certainly better than blindly trying to boot the machine > without giving the operator a chance to decide what to do about > the problem -- but this particular combination does have a chicken- > egg aspect :( > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > This still happened on my fairly recent ASUS p4s8x Pentium 4 motherboard. I think you could make almost any motherboard yield that error, even these days.
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