From owner-freebsd-emulation Sun Jan 18 17:25:40 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA06722 for freebsd-emulation-outgoing; Sun, 18 Jan 1998 17:25:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from word.smith.net.au (vh1.gsoft.com.au [203.38.152.122]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA06694 for ; Sun, 18 Jan 1998 17:25:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@word.smith.net.au) Received: from word (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by word.smith.net.au (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA00398; Mon, 19 Jan 1998 11:48:42 +1030 (CST) Message-Id: <199801190118.LAA00398@word.smith.net.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: Randall Hopper cc: emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DOSCMD: Misc questions In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 18 Jan 1998 18:31:39 CDT." <19980118183139.14729@ct.picker.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 19 Jan 1998 11:48:42 +1030 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > When DOSCMD starts up, it seems to need a key hit to continue loading DOS. > Is this normal? No. It may be due to something that you are loading in your CONFIG.SYS file which is unhappy with the quality of the low-level keyboard emulation. Have you tried working out what is hanging? Do you load the KEYB.SYS driver? (this last is known to cause problems). > Also, I see these messages when I check off the DOS option on my OS/BS > multiboot menu: > > Init: 0 > Unknown interrupt 15 function 4101 > Unknown interrupt 15 function 8766 You can look these up in Ralf Brown's Interrupt List. They are probably extended BIOS information requests. > Funny thing is that this key stays around in the keyboard buffer and is fed > to the next program requesting a key (HDM in my case, a hard disk manager > utility, which I start up from my autoexec.bat). Not actually very surprising; I expect that there is a program waiting for status from the keyboard. Hitting the key gets the status updated, but it never pulls the character itself. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\