Date: Sun, 21 Sep 1997 20:35:35 -0700 From: "Ronald F. Guilmette" <rfg@monkeys.com> To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BootEasy? It ain't so easy for *me*! Message-ID: <4040.874899335@monkeys.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of Sun, 21 Sep 1997 20:18:31 -0700. <Pine.BSF.3.96.970921201501.4716A-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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In message <Pine.BSF.3.96.970921201501.4716A-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>, you wrote : >Booteasy problems can usually be traced to geometry problems... Not in this case, I believe. Having tried _several_ installs on one system, and then having put the hard drive onto a totally different system and then re-doing the entire partitioning & install entirely from scratch again, only to be confronted onec again with the same damn frustrating problem, and then having finally had the good sense to try some other things, I am now at last prepared to offer a diagnosis of my own problem. The bottom line is that on two entirely different x86 systems, the F1 function key seems to have been left in an entirely disfunctional state immediately following an install of FreeBSD 2.2.2 and an immediately following WARM reboot. A cold reboot (power cycling the whole system) made the F1 key come back to life, and I am now happily running FreeBSD. QUESTION: Were there some known problems with the 2.2.2 keyboard driver leaving the keyboard (or at least the F1 key) in a dysfunctional state at times? The keyboards I have here are not exactly spring chickens anymore. Is it possible that there is some obscure issue which only arises with older keyboards? (Actually, my keyboards are not THAT old... but certainly each is at least several years old now.) P.S. Both of the two keyboards where I have seen this problem are of the traditional type (not PS/2) and both are also connected to their respective systems via additional 10' keyboard extension coards (so that I can put the systems in the closet, where they can make all the noise they want without bothering me). Is it possible that the length of these keyboard extension cables could be contributing to the problem? Or is my paranoid about cable length just carrying over (improperly) from my personal misery sessions with various SCSI chains? -- Ron Guilmette, Roseville, California ---------- E-Scrub Technologies, Inc. -- Deadbolt(tm) Personal E-Mail Filter demo: http://www.e-scrub.com/deadbolt/ -- Wpoison (web harvester poisoning) demo: http://monkeys.com/cgi-bin/wpoison
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