From owner-freebsd-current Mon Oct 26 01:44:07 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA23292 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Mon, 26 Oct 1998 01:44:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ceia.nordier.com (m2-9-dbn.dial-up.net [196.34.155.73]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA23254 for ; Mon, 26 Oct 1998 01:43:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rnordier@nordier.com) Received: (from rnordier@localhost) by ceia.nordier.com (8.8.7/8.6.12) id LAA26041; Mon, 26 Oct 1998 11:41:05 +0200 (SAT) From: Robert Nordier Message-Id: <199810260941.LAA26041@ceia.nordier.com> Subject: Re: /boot/loader hangs after arrow/function key pressed at prompt In-Reply-To: from Andrzej Bialecki at "Oct 26, 98 10:20:12 am" To: abial@nask.pl (Andrzej Bialecki) Date: Mon, 26 Oct 1998 11:41:03 +0200 (SAT) Cc: mike@smith.net.au, Jos.Backus@nl.origin-it.com, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Andrzej Bialecki wrote: > On Mon, 26 Oct 1998, Mike Smith wrote: > > > > This appears to happen with yesterday's loader. > > > > I just noticed this one; it's on the notes I'll be working from > > tomorrow. Thanks for the corroboration; I have only noticed it on one > > system so far (Toshiba laptop). > > I noticed this one too, on my desktop (Shuttle HOT-553 MB). > > I also encountered another problem: /boot/loader sometimes ignores > all keypresses (I wasn't able even to break the countdown), but I'm not > sure in what circumstances it happens - it sometimes happens, when I type > something on the boot: prompt, then delete it. If this happened with the new boot1/boot2, can you confirm this is still a problem? Your original report of this was some time ago, and various changes have been made, including to the input routine. Thanks. -- Robert Nordier To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message