From owner-freebsd-alpha Sun Nov 1 03:54:48 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id DAA22780 for freebsd-alpha-outgoing; Sun, 1 Nov 1998 03:54:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from nlsystems.com (nlsys.demon.co.uk [158.152.125.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id DAA22771 for ; Sun, 1 Nov 1998 03:54:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Received: from herring.nlsystems.com (herring.nlsystems.com [10.0.0.2]) by nlsystems.com (8.9.1/8.8.5) with SMTP id LAA00510; Sun, 1 Nov 1998 11:53:08 GMT Date: Sun, 1 Nov 1998 11:53:08 +0000 (GMT) From: Doug Rabson To: Mike Smith cc: shimon@simon-shapiro.org, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Installing (Last one for tonight) In-Reply-To: <199810312355.PAA01410@dingo.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sat, 31 Oct 1998, Mike Smith wrote: > > [ If you follow this thread, eventually you will be able to install FreeBSD > > on an Alpha Personal Workstation, avoiding many silly mistakes ] > > > > Got the kernel working, loads sysinstall (with strange colors (red > > background, etc.) but the keyboard (console!) is very goofy: > > > > * Does not react (in sysinstall) to any normal keystroke > > * Reacts (correctly) to ^C by asking ``Are you sure you want to abort...'' > > * Reacts correctly to ctl=alt=del > > * Works correctly in alt-F2 > > Whoah. It worked here OK, but that plus the funny colours makes me > think that libdialog is *not* 64-bit clean. > > > * Pause works correctly by allowing scrolling etc. > > You mean scroll lock? > > > * Works correctly in kernel debugger, although some boots cause it to work > > for only one or two characters, until the next ctl-alt-ESC > > Hmm. That's weird. I've seen some i386 keyboard problems as well; I > think there may be a couple of nasties here. > > Thanks for the input; keep plugging when you get the time. I've noticed the stuck keyboard effect before too. I tried a few times yesterday and didn't get that problem. I had it hang once probing for devices. After rebooting, I actually managed to install a system to my spare disk. It worked fairly well apart from the fact that the disk wasn't made bootable and the fstab had entries like da1s1a instead of da1a. After I fixed those manually, the disk booted and appeared to work well. This was with a release built around Wednesday last week. -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 951 1891 Fax: +44 181 381 1039 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message