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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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To: dyson@FreeBSD.org, toor@dyson.iquest.net
Subject: Re: Problems with bootstrap
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>> MB:  SuperMicro P6DNF, AMI bios....
>> 
>More info, isch() isn't ever sensing a character being typed.  I
>simply commented out the isch test (disabling the timeout), and
>it works (getchar is okay.)

Maybe the BIOS forgets to enable interrupts for isch().  The bootstrap
could do it.

>Any known AMI bios bugs?  (I am NOT the person who knows all of
>these bios things.)

Don't know.  Old AMI BIOSes work.

Bruce