From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 16 17: 1:47 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from earth.wnm.net (earth.wnm.net [208.246.240.243]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F33E037BD04 for ; Thu, 16 Mar 2000 17:01:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from alex@wnm.net) Received: from localhost (alex@localhost) by earth.wnm.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA02593; Thu, 16 Mar 2000 18:43:33 -0600 (CST) Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 18:43:33 -0600 (CST) From: Alex Charalabidis To: "Brian J. McGovern" Cc: brent@kearneys.ca, questions@FreeBSD.ORG, jfn@enteract.com Subject: RE: AMD Athlon and booting In-Reply-To: <200003170011.TAA33374@spoon.beta.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 16 Mar 2000, Brian J. McGovern wrote: > Hey, guys. I went a slightly different route than playing with the numlock key > to get FreeBSD running. The problem seems to really be the -P (probe the > keyboard) boot option, and it setting -D and -h when it doesn't find it. My > "workaround" was to make boot floppies, and edit boot.conf to remove the -P > (or delete the file if there are no other options). > > Once done, it just happily boots up and installs. Looks like keyboard probing > may need some work for Athlon processors, so i'm cc'ing this to the hackers > list, so hopefully, some console guru can take a look at it. > > Also, if no one has done it so far, let me know, and I'll submit a pr. > The problem might actually be with the SD-11 board. I built two K7 500s on SD-11 boards a while ago (3.4-STABLE) and am not at all happy with them. In fact, I was able to bring only one of them into production and live with it randomly crashing every now and then... the other one crashed too frequently and is headed for the RMA department. What I've seen points to a motherboard problem and not a FreeBSD problem so, if anyone has evidence to the contrary, I'd like to hear it. -ac -- ============================================================== Alex Charalabidis (AC8139) 5050 Poplar Ave, Ste 170 Systems Administrator Memphis, TN 38157 WebNet Memphis (901) 432 6000 Author, The Book of IRC http://www.bookofirc.com/ ============================================================== To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message