From owner-freebsd-current Mon Oct 26 13:29:58 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA24821 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Mon, 26 Oct 1998 13:29:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from korin.warman.org.pl (korin.nask.waw.pl [148.81.160.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA24816 for ; Mon, 26 Oct 1998 13:29:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from abial@nask.pl) Received: from localhost (abial@localhost) by korin.warman.org.pl (8.9.1/8.8.5) with SMTP id WAA14549; Mon, 26 Oct 1998 22:34:13 +0100 (CET) X-Authentication-Warning: korin.warman.org.pl: abial owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 26 Oct 1998 22:34:13 +0100 (CET) From: Andrzej Bialecki X-Sender: abial@korin.warman.org.pl To: Robert Nordier cc: mike@smith.net.au, Jos.Backus@nl.origin-it.com, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /boot/loader hangs after arrow/function key pressed at prompt In-Reply-To: <199810260941.LAA26041@ceia.nordier.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 26 Oct 1998, Robert Nordier wrote: > > I also encountered another problem: /boot/loader sometimes ignores > > all keypresses (I wasn't able even to break the countdown), but I'm not > > sure in what circumstances it happens - it sometimes happens, when I type > > something on the boot: prompt, then delete it. > > If this happened with the new boot1/boot2, can you confirm this is > still a problem? Your original report of this was some time ago, and > various changes have been made, including to the input routine. I just checked it with the newest sources - I built the binaries, and installed them, and rebooted... Well, after several times I kind of see a pattern. /boot/loader seems to choke when I press Enter _twice_ very quickly at the boot: prompt (but again, not always..). Seems to me that some junk left in some buffer confuses it... Andrzej Bialecki -------------------- ++-------++ ------------------------------------- ||PicoBSD|| FreeBSD in your pocket? Go and see: Research & Academic |+-------+| "Small & Embedded FreeBSD" Network in Poland | |TT~~~| | http://www.freebsd.org/~picobsd/ -------------------- ~-+==---+-+ ------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message