Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2000 03:02:28 -0400 From: "Patrick Simon" <mailsimon@gmx.net> To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>, <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: installation problem on laptop (keyboard) (need expert help) Message-ID: <PDEKLDAKBLNOKBKEGKNOOEGHCAAA.mailsimon@gmx.net>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] To: FreeBSD mailing-list (support) From: mailsimon@gmx.net Date: 10/6/00 2:33 EST Problem: "FreeBSD 4.0 installation problem" Hi, I try to install FreeBSD 4.0 (stable) on my Echos P90 laptop. Further hardware informations on my laptop are available at: http://www.seindal.dk/rene/linux/ I'm going to do a CDROM installation with two bootdisks, that I created with "makeflp.bat" (kern.flp and mfsroot.flp). Both disk were creating under MSDOS. After restarting my laptop, I get the following messages and the computer hangs. --- start here --- /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 --- ends here --- It is not possible to enter any parameters at the boot prompt (=> Keyboard: no). Well, i figured out that I can type some characters a second before the floppy starts reading. So when I enter the parameter -h, the installation continues. But I have to be very fast because my keyboard apparently only works before the disk is loading. Anyway with this little hint I can continue till the next boot disk, which is "mfsroot.flp". This is the output with -h till my computer hangs again. --- start here --- /boot.config: -P Keyboard: no >> FreeBSD/i386 BOOT Default: 0:fd(0,a)/boot/loader boot: -h BTX loader 1.00 BTX version is 1.01 Console: internal video/keyboard BIOS drive A: is disk0 BIOS drive C: is disk1 BIOS 639kB/39936kB available memory FreeBSD/i386 bootstrap loader, Revision 0.7 (root@monster.cdrom.com, Mon Mar 20 21:05:31 GMT 2000) /kernel text=0x1d581e data=0x24c60+0x1a718 | Please insert MFS root floppy and press enter: --- ends here --- At this point my laptop is stuck again cause I can't press enter after the disk change. I think that my internal keyboard isn't supported by the kernel. Even the boot parameter -h, doesn't help at this point. But it got further than without it. I can press enter while boot disk "kern" is still being read, but this goes to fast to be able to insert the next disk. I did it only once and I guess I was very lucky, cause I spend about three houres last night to figure out how to avoid this problem. But I think I need serious help now. So if anyone knows how to fix/avoid that problem, please reply. I really appreciate any kind of help. My mailadress: mailsimon@gmx.net My ICQ: 66026610 (please just mail me if possible) Thank you very much in advance ... and I hope that you can just help me out!!! [-- Attachment #2 --] <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" http-equiv=Content-Type> <META content="MSHTML 5.00.3017.1000" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY> <BLOCKQUOTE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px"> <DIV align=left class=OutlookMessageHeader dir=ltr><FONT face=Tahoma><FONT color=#0000ff> <DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=2><SPAN class=432583006-10062000>To: FreeBSD mailing-list (support)</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=2><SPAN class=426203504-07062000><SPAN class=432583006-10062000>From: <A href="mailto:mailsimon@gmx.net">mailsimon@gmx.net</A></SPAN></SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=2><SPAN class=426203504-07062000><SPAN class=432583006-10062000>Date: 10/6/00 2:33 EST</SPAN></SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=2><SPAN class=426203504-07062000><SPAN class=432583006-10062000>Problem: "FreeBSD 4.0 installation problem"</SPAN></SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#000000 face=Verdana size=2><SPAN class=426203504-07062000></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#000000 face=Verdana size=2><SPAN class=426203504-07062000>Hi,</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#000000 face=Verdana size=2><SPAN class=432583006-10062000>I try to install FreeBSD 4.0 (stable) on my Echos P90 laptop. Further hardware informations on my laptop are available at: <A href="http://www.seindal.dk/rene/linux/">http://www.seindal.dk/rene/linux/</A></SPAN></FONT></DIV>; <DIV><FONT color=#000000 face=Verdana size=2><SPAN class=432583006-10062000></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#000000 face=Verdana size=2><SPAN class=432583006-10062000>I'm going to do a CDROM installation with two bootdisks, that I created with "makeflp.bat" (kern.flp and mfsroot.flp). Both disk were creating under MSDOS. After restarting my laptop, I get the following messages and the computer hangs.</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#000000 face=Verdana size=2><SPAN class=432583006-10062000></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><EM><FONT color=#808080 face=Verdana size=2><SPAN class=432583006-10062000>--- start here ---</SPAN></FONT></EM></DIV> <DIV><EM><FONT color=#808080 face=Verdana size=2><SPAN class=432583006-10062000> </SPAN></FONT></EM></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=432583006-10062000> <DIV><EM><FONT color=#808080 face=Verdana size=2><SPAN class=426203504-07062000>/boot.config: -P</SPAN></FONT></EM></DIV> <DIV><EM><FONT color=#808080 face=Verdana size=2><SPAN class=426203504-07062000>Keyboard: no</SPAN></FONT></EM></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=426203504-07062000></SPAN><EM><FONT color=#808080 face=Verdana size=2> </FONT></EM></DIV> <DIV><EM><FONT color=#808080 face=Verdana size=2><SPAN class=426203504-07062000>>> FreeBSD/i386 BOOT</SPAN></FONT></EM></DIV> <DIV><EM><FONT color=#808080 face=Verdana size=2><SPAN class=426203504-07062000>Default: 0:fd(0,a)/boot/loader</SPAN></FONT></EM></DIV> <DIV><EM><FONT color=#808080 face=Verdana size=2><SPAN class=426203504-07062000>boot: </SPAN></FONT></EM></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=426203504-07062000></SPAN><EM><FONT color=#808080 face=Verdana size=2> </FONT></EM></DIV> <DIV><EM><FONT color=#808080 face=Verdana size=2><SPAN class=426203504-07062000>BTX loader 1.00 BTX version is 1.01</SPAN></FONT></EM></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=426203504-07062000></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=426203504-07062000></SPAN><FONT color=#808080><FONT size=2><FONT face=Verdana><EM><SPAN class=432583006-10062000>--- ends here</SPAN><SPAN class=432583006-10062000> ---</SPAN> </EM></FONT></FONT></FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV></SPAN><FONT color=#000000 face=Verdana size=2><SPAN class=432583006-10062000>It is not possible to enter any parameters at the boot prompt (=> Keyboard: no). Well, i figured out that I can type some characters a second before the floppy starts reading. So when I enter the parameter -h, the installation continues. But I have to be very fast because my keyboard apparently only works before the disk is loading. Anyway with this little hint I can continue till the next boot disk, which is "mfsroot.flp". This is the output with -h till my computer hangs again.</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#000000 face=Verdana size=2><SPAN class=432583006-10062000></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#000000><SPAN class=432583006-10062000> <DIV><EM><FONT color=#808080 face=Verdana size=2><SPAN class=432583006-10062000>--- start here ---</SPAN></FONT></EM></DIV> <DIV><EM><FONT color=#808080 face=Verdana size=2><SPAN class=432583006-10062000> </SPAN></FONT></EM></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=432583006-10062000> <DIV><EM><FONT color=#808080 face=Verdana size=2><SPAN class=426203504-07062000>/boot.config: -P</SPAN></FONT></EM></DIV> <DIV><EM><FONT color=#808080 face=Verdana size=2><SPAN class=426203504-07062000>Keyboard: no</SPAN></FONT></EM></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=426203504-07062000></SPAN><EM><FONT color=#808080 face=Verdana size=2> </FONT></EM></DIV> <DIV><EM><FONT color=#808080 face=Verdana size=2><SPAN class=426203504-07062000>>> FreeBSD/i386 BOOT</SPAN></FONT></EM></DIV> <DIV><EM><FONT color=#808080 face=Verdana size=2><SPAN class=426203504-07062000>Default: 0:fd(0,a)/boot/loader</SPAN></FONT></EM></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2><FONT color=#808080><FONT face=Verdana><EM><SPAN class=426203504-07062000>boot: <SPAN class=432583006-10062000>-h</SPAN></SPAN></EM></FONT></FONT></FONT></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=426203504-07062000></SPAN><EM><FONT color=#808080 face=Verdana size=2> </FONT></EM></DIV> <DIV><EM><FONT color=#808080 face=Verdana size=2><SPAN class=426203504-07062000>BTX loader 1.00 BTX version is 1.01</SPAN></FONT></EM></DIV> <DIV><EM><FONT color=#808080 face=Verdana size=2><SPAN class=426203504-07062000><SPAN class=432583006-10062000>Console: internal video/keyboard</SPAN></SPAN></FONT></EM></DIV> <DIV><EM><FONT color=#808080 face=Verdana size=2><SPAN class=426203504-07062000><SPAN class=432583006-10062000>BIOS drive A: is disk0</SPAN></SPAN></FONT></EM></DIV> <DIV><EM><FONT color=#808080 face=Verdana size=2><SPAN class=426203504-07062000><SPAN class=432583006-10062000>BIOS drive C: is disk1</SPAN></SPAN></FONT></EM></DIV> <DIV><EM><FONT color=#808080 face=Verdana size=2><SPAN class=426203504-07062000><SPAN class=432583006-10062000>BIOS 639kB/39936kB available memory</SPAN></SPAN></FONT></EM></DIV> <DIV><EM><FONT color=#808080 face=Verdana size=2><SPAN class=426203504-07062000><SPAN class=432583006-10062000></SPAN></SPAN></FONT></EM> </DIV> <DIV><EM><FONT color=#808080 face=Verdana size=2><SPAN class=426203504-07062000><SPAN class=432583006-10062000>FreeBSD/i386 bootstrap loader, Revision 0.7</SPAN></SPAN></FONT></EM></DIV> <DIV><EM><FONT color=#808080 face=Verdana size=2><SPAN class=426203504-07062000><SPAN class=432583006-10062000>(root@monster.cdrom.com, Mon Mar 20 21:05:31 GMT 2000)</SPAN></SPAN></FONT></EM></DIV> <DIV><EM><FONT color=#808080 face=Verdana size=2><SPAN class=426203504-07062000><SPAN class=432583006-10062000>/kernel text=0x1d581e data=0x24c60+0x1a718 |</SPAN></SPAN></FONT></EM></DIV> <DIV><EM><FONT color=#808080 face=Verdana size=2><SPAN class=426203504-07062000><SPAN class=432583006-10062000></SPAN></SPAN></FONT></EM> </DIV> <DIV><EM><FONT color=#808080 face=Verdana size=2><SPAN class=426203504-07062000><SPAN class=432583006-10062000>Please insert MFS root floppy and press enter:</SPAN></SPAN></FONT></EM></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=2> </FONT></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=426203504-07062000></SPAN><FONT size=2><FONT face=Verdana><FONT color=#808080><EM><SPAN class=432583006-10062000>--- ends here</SPAN><SPAN class=432583006-10062000> ---</SPAN> </EM></FONT></FONT></FONT></SPAN></SPAN></FONT><FONT color=#000000 face=Verdana size=2><SPAN class=432583006-10062000></SPAN></FONT></DIV></DIV></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#000000 face=Verdana size=2><SPAN class=432583006-10062000></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#000000 face=Verdana size=2><SPAN class=432583006-10062000>At this point my laptop is stuck again cause I can't press enter after the disk change. I think that my internal keyboard isn't supported by the kernel. Even the boot parameter -h, doesn't help at this point. But it got further than without it. I can press enter while boot disk "kern" is still being read, but this goes to fast to be able to insert the next disk. I did it only once and I guess I was very lucky, cause I spend about three houres last night to figure out how to avoid this problem. But I think I need serious help now. So if anyone knows how to fix/avoid that problem, please reply. I really appreciate any kind of help.</SPAN></FONT></DIV></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#000000 face=Verdana size=2> </FONT></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=426203504-07062000><FONT color=#000000 face=Verdana size=2>My mailadress: </FONT><A href="mailto:mailsimon@gmx.net"><FONT color=#000000 face=Verdana size=2>mailsimon@gmx.net</FONT></A></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#000000 face=Verdana size=2><SPAN class=426203504-07062000><SPAN class=432583006-10062000>My ICQ: 66026610 (please just mail me if possible)</SPAN></SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=426203504-07062000></SPAN><FONT color=#000000 face=Verdana size=2> </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2><FONT color=#000000><FONT face=Verdana><SPAN class=426203504-07062000>Thank you very much in advance<SPAN class=432583006-10062000> ... and I hope that you can just help me out!!!</SPAN></SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2><FONT color=#000000><FONT face=Verdana><SPAN class=426203504-07062000><SPAN class=432583006-10062000></SPAN></SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT> </DIV></DIV></FONT></DIV></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>
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