From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 9 21:23: 3 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E17F37B995 for ; Fri, 9 Jun 2000 21:22:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@wantadilla.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by wantadilla.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id NAA89752; Sat, 10 Jun 2000 13:52:48 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2000 13:52:48 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Patrick Simon Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: installation problem on laptop (keyboard) Message-ID: <20000610135248.S81728@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Saturday, 10 June 2000 at 0:16:23 -0400, Patrick Simon wrote: > Hi, > I got huge problem while installing FreeBSD 4.0 on my Echos P90 Laptop. I > know that it is actually supported, but I'm still facing a big problem. When > I start my installation with the first boot disk "kernel" ... my computer > hangs after the following messages: > > /boot.config: -P > Keyboard: no > >>> FreeBSD/i386 BOOT > Default: 0:fd(0,a)/boot/loader > boot: > > BTX loader 1.00 BTX version is 1.01 > > -- stops right here -- > > Well I already figured out that my keyboard isn't supported. Interesting. Yes, you're right, but I haven't seen this before. Is this the internal keyboard? Can you connect an external keyboard? If so, does that help? Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message