Date: Tue, 15 Aug 1995 03:04:43 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: wilson@VNET.IBM.COM (Jeff Wilson) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD on Thinkpad 360CE Message-ID: <199508141734.DAA22332@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <9508141649.AA24906@belgium.fishkill.ibm.com> from "Jeff Wilson" at Aug 14, 95 12:49:49 pm
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Jeff Wilson stands accused of saying: > But I already have that kernel on the boot floppy you gave me. The > installation program runs fine, but once I boot from the hard disk, it doesn't > work. I thought the kernel gets copied from the boot floppy to the hard disk. > So, I should have the right kernel, but it still doesn't work. No, the kernel on the floppy is the very specialk BOOTMFS kernel; the kernel on your harddisk is the GENERIC kernel, which comes out of the bindist. > If I go into the config utility (booting with -c) from the hard disk, I have > no problems in there, but once I go to the login prompt, it doesn't work. I > THINK this means that the kernel is fine, but some configuration file that is > read on startup is changing the keymap. Unfortunatly, I have no way of > changing it (except MAYBE by modififing sysinstall, but I'm not sure exactly > how I would have to do that.) AFAIK, userconfig uses the BIOS for character I/O, so you're not seeing anything relevant there. You need some kind soul to provide you with an alternate kernel and some way of getting it onto your disk. > Jeff -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] My car has "demand start" - Terry Lambert [[
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