Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 15:13:26 -0700 (PDT) From: Brian Beattie <beattie@beattie-home.net> To: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>, Chris Shenton <cshenton@uucom.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4.0-RELEASE ASUS K7V floppy boot fails -- register dump Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0004271505390.6775-100000@raven.pdx.beattie-home.net> In-Reply-To: <200004272128.OAA00669@mass.cdrom.com>
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On Thu, 27 Apr 2000, Mike Smith wrote:
> > > 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(
>
I would have to say that my experience indicates a flaw in your
analysis. I do not know what is doing it, but since the boot process
started checking for an extended keyboard, I can not use my compact
keyboard in boot, or, I think, single user. It still works fine in
multi-user (may be an artifact of X). This keyboard is not an extended
keyboard, but I do not have te -P flag set. The keyboard produces
garbage.
I can understand the keyboard not be recognized, but if I do not do a -P
it should still work fine, but does not. Last time I mentioned this, I
got pretty much tge same answer you give here. Well you may be right, it
coule be an entirely passive operation, but something changed, no matter
what you think.
I gave up and went back to a regulat keyboard, since nobody seemed
interested in listening, to myself and others.
> --
> \\ 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
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