From owner-freebsd-bugs Thu Mar 2 18:06:51 1995 Return-Path: bugs-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id SAA24015 for bugs-outgoing; Thu, 2 Mar 1995 18:06:51 -0800 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with SMTP id SAA23955 for ; Thu, 2 Mar 1995 18:06:15 -0800 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de with SMTP (5.67b+/DEC-Ultrix/4.3) id AA03413; Thu, 2 Mar 1995 20:42:38 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.9/8.6.9-s1) with UUCP id UAA17730; Thu, 2 Mar 1995 20:42:38 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.9/8.6.9) id UAA21543; Thu, 2 Mar 1995 20:33:25 +0100 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199503021933.UAA21543@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: 021095-SNAP To: robsch@robkaos.ruhr.de (Robert Schien) Date: Thu, 2 Mar 1995 20:33:25 +0100 (MET) Cc: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD bugs list) In-Reply-To: from "Robert Schien" at Mar 2, 95 10:57:49 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: 579 Sender: bugs-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Robert Schien wrote: > > I have made a similiar experience. > I have to reset my machine a few times before FreeBSD will be booted. > Never had this problem with 2.0-RELEASE. > Why was the boot code changed? Since it's now able to boot either off the VGA/kbd, or off the serial console port. The com port will be used if no kbd is found, so there must be some probe for the kbd. Unfortunately, the BIOS lets us alone with this. -- 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. ;-)