From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jun 8 05:37:01 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id FAA10146 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 8 Jun 1995 05:37:01 -0700 Received: from condor.ic.net (root@condor.ic.net [152.160.1.2]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id FAA10139 for ; Thu, 8 Jun 1995 05:36:55 -0700 Received: from ic.net by condor.ic.net with smtp (Smail3.1.29.1 #6) id m0sJhj3-001Cz3C; Thu, 8 Jun 95 09:34 WET DST Received: by ic.net (Smail3.1.28.1 #6) id m0sJgn4-000gpDC; Thu, 8 Jun 95 08:34 WET DST Date: Thu, 8 Jun 1995 08:34:26 -0400 (EDT) From: Rob To: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Can't use keyboard after compiling new kernel Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I compile new kernels a lot - I like to experament with things. So the latest one I compiled was identical to the last one that I used except that it used cons25 terminal instead of vt220. I guess I was a little too sure of myself and deleted /kernel.old (I thought I would forget to later.) Now FreeBSD starts to boot, and somewhere after it mounts some partitions I loose the cursor, and I can't use the keyboard at all (I was able to use it at the "Boot:" prompt.) Can anyone help!? I tried starting the installation in fix-it mode but the same thing happens when I boot from the hard disk. I'm stuck using OS/2 for the time being. Thank you for any help any of you may be able to give. Rob