Date: 17 Mar 2000 14:32:03 +0100 From: sperber@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de (Michael Sperber [Mr. Preprocessor]) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: AMD Athlon and booting. Message-ID: <y9lbt4d3ep8.fsf@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de> In-Reply-To: Barth Weishoff's message of "Thu, 16 Mar 2000 09:16:24 -0600" References: <20000316091624.A7641@cb670867-b.mdsn1.wi.home.com>
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>>>>> "Barth" == Barth Weishoff <bweishof@cb670867-b.mdsn1.wi.home.com> 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 <RETURN>" 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
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