From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 17 5:32:13 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from lesbains.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de (lesbains.Informatik.Uni-Tuebingen.De [134.2.12.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC59737B56B for ; Fri, 17 Mar 2000 05:32:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sperber@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de) Received: from informatik.uni-tuebingen.de (brabantio [134.2.12.25]) by lesbains.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 39BCD4AD for ; Fri, 17 Mar 2000 14:32:06 +0100 (NFT) Received: (from sperber@localhost) by informatik.uni-tuebingen.de (AIX4.3/UCB 8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA28048; Fri, 17 Mar 2000 14:32:04 +0100 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: AMD Athlon and booting. References: <20000316091624.A7641@cb670867-b.mdsn1.wi.home.com> From: sperber@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de (Michael Sperber [Mr. Preprocessor]) Date: 17 Mar 2000 14:32:03 +0100 In-Reply-To: Barth Weishoff's message of "Thu, 16 Mar 2000 09:16:24 -0600" Message-ID: Lines: 24 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0803 (Gnus v5.8.3) XEmacs/21.2 (Iris) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >>>>> "Barth" == Barth Weishoff writes: Barth> Hello. Barth> I've been directed to send this request here. Barth> I have an AMD Athlon based system that is locking upon bootup while trying Barth> to boot from either the distro CD (3.4-R and 4.0-RC3) or the floppy disks. Barth> The system will display this message: Barth> /boot.config: -P Barth> Keyboard: no This is a timing problem with your mainboard: FreeBSD's keyboard probe is too fast on the Athlon board for the keyboard controller. It's trivial to get around, however: Just type "-h " right away after seeing this message. -- Cheers =8-} Mike Friede, Völkerverständigung und überhaupt blabla To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message