From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jun 8 12:25:53 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id MAA24721 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 8 Jun 1995 12:25:53 -0700 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id MAA24707 for ; Thu, 8 Jun 1995 12:25:50 -0700 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de with SMTP (5.67b+/DEC-Ultrix/4.3) id AA05995; Thu, 8 Jun 1995 21:25:46 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id VAA11808; Thu, 8 Jun 1995 21:25:46 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) id UAA01109; Thu, 8 Jun 1995 20:33:19 +0200 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199506081833.UAA01109@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Can't use keyboard after compiling new kernel To: rdm@falcon.ic.net (Rob) Date: Thu, 8 Jun 1995 20:33:19 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Rob" at Jun 8, 95 08:34:26 am Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 833 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk As Rob wrote: > > 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. Sounds confusing. If you've only changed the TERM settings (that is where the names ``cons25'' and ``vt220'' belong), then why did you build a new kernel? Or did you compile a kernel with the pcvt console driver? (If so, what did you use in your config file?) Either way, i think the only way to get it back alive is to put a kernel.GENERIC somwhere from a fixit floppy onto the machine. You can try booting single-user and see if this helps. (`-s' at the bootprompt) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)