Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 11:38:36 -0600 (CST) From: Jeremy Nelson <jfn@enteract.com> To: brent@kearneys.ca Subject: Re: AMD Athlon and booting. Message-ID: <200003161738.LAA79789@shell-2.enteract.com> In-Reply-To: <20000316081601.B38453@kearneys.ca> References: <20000316091624.A7641@cb670867-b.mdsn1.wi.home.com>
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I'm sorry to barge in on the middle of this, but i had this exact same problem, and was able to work out how to fix it. >On Thu, Mar 16, 2000 at 09:16:24AM -0600, Barth Weishoff wrote: >> >> I have an AMD Athlon based system that is locking upon bootup while trying >> to boot from either the distro CD (3.4-R and 4.0-RC3) or the floppy disks. >> >> The system will display this message: >> >> /boot.config: -P >> Keyboard: no >> >> BTX loader 1.00 BTX version is 1.01 >> >> At this point the machine locks. The machine configuration is as follows: >> >> AMD Athlon 650MHz >> FIC SD-II mainboard - http://www.fic.com.tw/motherboards/sd11/sd11intro.htm [rest snipped] I found that the problem had something to do with numlock. I was able to confirm this by testing this about two dozen times. Here is what i found: If <Numlock> is off, your keyboard will *not* be found, and you're stuck. I tried various togglings of <numlock>, and what i found worked the best is to set your bios to turn <numlock> on at boot-up, and then turn <numlock> off and then immediately back on while the bios is checking your memory. I know this sounds crazy, but it worked for me and I tried almost every other possible combination of <numlock> tricks, and that was the one that caused the boot disk to find the keyboard. I basically have the exact same setup as you except that i have a K7-550. Note that this is only a problem for the boot disk. Once you have freebsd installed, you don't need to go through this again every time you boot. Jeremy To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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