Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 10:58:32 +0200 From: Danny Braniss <danny@cs.huji.ac.il> To: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: pxeboot and serial console Message-ID: <E1EwboO-000B6V-Tb@cs1.cs.huji.ac.il> In-Reply-To: Your message of Tue, 10 Jan 2006 13:49:53 -0500 .
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> On Tuesday 10 January 2006 09:11 am, Danny Braniss wrote: > > I can't tell when this broke, but compiling pxeboot with > > BOOT_PXELDR_PROBE_KEYBOARD set would redirect the console to the serial > > port if no keyboard was detected. This no longer works, which explains > > the problems i had with the serial port on my intel 1U servers. > > > > the relevant code is in /sys/boot/i386/pxeldr/pxeldr.S. > > > > compiling with BOOT_PXELDR_ALWAYS_SERIAL works as expected, so IMHO > > the test: > > testb $KEYBOARD_BIT, MEM_BIOS_KEYBOARD # keyboard present? > > is failing, but i have no idea why > > > > any ideas? > > USB keyboards? Actually, it sounds in your case as if the BIOS is always > claiming a keyboard is present. Perhaps your BIOS is just being lame, but > that single test isn't the greatest test to use either. 2 words: Power Cycle This will guarantee that the bios will/won't detect the keyboard. all is ok now.
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