From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jul 7 00:59:07 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F418D16A400 for ; Sat, 7 Jul 2007 00:59:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from alive@dienub.org) Received: from pqueuea.post.tele.dk (pqueuea.post.tele.dk [193.162.153.9]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B986913C483 for ; Sat, 7 Jul 2007 00:59:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from alive@dienub.org) Received: from pfepc.post.tele.dk (pfepc.post.tele.dk [195.41.46.237]) by pqueuea.post.tele.dk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8DDC2DC0C6 for ; Sat, 7 Jul 2007 02:26:53 +0200 (CEST) Received: from m00h.dienub.org (dienub.org [87.48.115.212]) by pfepc.post.tele.dk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 249DF8A000E; Sat, 7 Jul 2007 02:26:51 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [192.168.0.2] (Radab0x.dienub.org [192.168.0.2]) by m00h.dienub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC72E11432; Sat, 7 Jul 2007 02:26:50 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <468EDDD1.1010201@dienub.org> Date: Sat, 07 Jul 2007 02:26:57 +0200 From: "Daniel A. A." User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.4 (Windows/20070604) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: perryh@pluto.rain.com References: <4e3998c7e72.465ed931@broadpark.no> <18014.49617.224340.697794@jerusalem.litteratus.org> <465EC558.9070102@netfence.it> <20070531135651.GA988@home> <20070531185521.417ec0e2.coolzone@it.dk> <465f9d8a.W5x7vfZFzMgA48g/%perryh@pluto.rain.com> In-Reply-To: <465f9d8a.W5x7vfZFzMgA48g/%perryh@pluto.rain.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: coolzone@it.dk, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: OT: Re: The worst error message in history belongs to... BIND9! X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 07 Jul 2007 00:59:07 -0000 perryh@pluto.rain.com wrote: >>> Favourite worst written error message in history: >>> >>> Keyboard not found. Press F1 to continue. >>> >> I have always loved this one!! Who made that up!? >> > > Someone at IBM. That's what the original IBM PC, PC-AT, and > (presumably) PC-XT displayed if the keyboard was dead or not > plugged in. > > It was probably a case of modular code: any problem in POST would > display a message and return a "fail" status, and the generic code > would append "Press F1 to continue." and wait. Not a bad idea at > all -- certainly better than blindly trying to boot the machine > without giving the operator a chance to decide what to do about > the problem -- but this particular combination does have a chicken- > egg aspect :( > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > This still happened on my fairly recent ASUS p4s8x Pentium 4 motherboard. I think you could make almost any motherboard yield that error, even these days.