From owner-freebsd-mobile Fri Nov 23 15: 5:31 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from gvr.gvr.org (gvr.gvr.org [212.61.40.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 37E4837B419 for ; Fri, 23 Nov 2001 15:05:29 -0800 (PST) Received: by gvr.gvr.org (Postfix, from userid 657) id EF3C45809; Sat, 24 Nov 2001 00:05:27 +0100 (CET) Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2001 00:05:27 +0100 From: Guido van Rooij To: Brooks Davis Cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: fail to install 4.4 on omnibook 500 Message-ID: <20011124000527.A649@gvr.gvr.org> References: <20011123233211.A187@gvr.gvr.org> <20011123145759.A9650@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20011123145759.A9650@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu>; from brooks@one-eyed-alien.net on Fri, Nov 23, 2001 at 02:57:59PM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, Nov 23, 2001 at 02:57:59PM -0800, Brooks Davis wrote: > > There seems to be an odd interaction with the 4.4 keyboard probe and > some BIOS versions. If you use the keyboard (say, to select the floppy > as a boot device) the system will detect the keyboard. Otherwise, it > doesn't and boots to the serial console. I haven't had any problems > with current and 4.3 worked as well. I think a BIOS upgrade helped, but > I can't remember for sure since current didn't have problems. > That doesn't explian why I dont even get the message about the boot device and why sysinstall does not start... -Guido To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message