Date: Mon, 11 Mar 96 01:15:55 +0100 From: Jean-Marc Zucconi <jmz@cabri.obs-besancon.fr> To: current@freebsd.org Subject: COMCONSOLE: a patch and a problem Message-ID: <9603110015.AA04281@cabri.obs-besancon.fr>
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I played with the boot blocks and I noticed that I was unable to boot
from a serial console (keyboard unplugged). The patch below fixes a
bug in boot.c/probe_keyboard.c (well, at least on my machine:-).
The problem now: when booting from a serial console, there is no
timeout at the 'Boot:' prompt. Further investigations showed that the
bios_tick function always returns the same value! Is this related to
the fact that the keyboard is not plugged in?
Jean-Marc
Index: boot.c
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RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/sys/i386/boot/biosboot/boot.c,v
retrieving revision 1.47
diff -u -r1.47 boot.c
--- boot.c 1996/03/08 06:29:06 1.47
+++ boot.c 1996/03/10 23:50:15
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@
int ret;
#ifdef PROBE_KEYBOARD
- if (probe_keyboard()) {
+ if (!probe_keyboard()) {
init_serial();
loadflags |= RB_SERIAL;
printf("\nNo keyboard found.");
Index: probe_keyboard.c
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RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/sys/i386/boot/biosboot/probe_keyboard.c,v
retrieving revision 1.6
diff -u -r1.6 probe_keyboard.c
--- probe_keyboard.c 1996/03/08 06:29:07 1.6
+++ probe_keyboard.c 1996/03/10 23:50:36
@@ -114,7 +114,7 @@
#ifdef DEBUG
printf("ok\n");
#endif
- return(0);
+ return(1);
}
#endif /* PROBE_KEYBOARD */
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