From owner-freebsd-current Tue Apr 21 15:53:39 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA15179 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 21 Apr 1998 15:53:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from shrimp.dataplex.net (shrimp.dataplex.net [208.2.87.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA15172 for ; Tue, 21 Apr 1998 22:53:35 GMT (envelope-from rkw@Dataplex.NET) Received: from [208.2.87.6] (user6.dataplex.net [208.2.87.6]) by shrimp.dataplex.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA20126; Tue, 21 Apr 1998 17:53:23 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from rkw@dataplex.net) X-Sender: rkw@mail.dataplex.net Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <25512.893196730@time.cdrom.com> References: Your message of "Tue, 21 Apr 1998 11:22:49 PDT." <199804211822.LAA27407@athena.tera.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Tue, 21 Apr 1998 17:52:19 -0500 To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" From: Richard Wackerbarth Subject: Re: Free BSD and Windows Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 5:12 PM -0500 4/21/98, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: >People have been either quite happy or very displeased with >"booteasy" Speaking of this boot program..... I just built a system "from scratch" with the recent 3.0-SNAP. I just ran into some unexpected behavior. I'm trying to set up a "headless machine" It obvoiusly has a kbd interface, but I do not supply the keyboard. Similarly, I may (or may not) have a CRT and video card. With kbd & video, it works just fine. However, in order to get it to even try to boot without a keyboard, I have to tell the bios that it is not required. With thaqt setting, I get into the boot blocks as expected. I get to "Default: F1" and it hangs uptil I plug in a keyboard. Only then does it proceed to the Boot: prompt. On my old P-5, I could boot without a keyboard. Am I doing something wrong? Does this deserve a "PR" ? Richard Wackerbarth To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message