From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jul 5 00:22:50 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id AAA07093 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 5 Jul 1995 00:22:50 -0700 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id AAA07080 for ; Wed, 5 Jul 1995 00:22:41 -0700 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de with SMTP (5.67b+/DEC-Ultrix/4.3) id AA13259; Wed, 5 Jul 1995 09:22:38 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id JAA14194; Wed, 5 Jul 1995 09:22:37 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) id HAA04407; Wed, 5 Jul 1995 07:49:04 +0200 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199507050549.HAA04407@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Booting with no kbd To: dennis@et.htp.com (dennis) Date: Wed, 5 Jul 1995 07:49:04 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199507050213.WAA08783@mail.htp.com> from "dennis" at Jul 4, 95 10:13:01 pm Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 1092 Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk As dennis wrote: > > On 1 machine the system won't even try to load the kernel. With boot manager > installed it just sits at the prompt and never times out. As soon as the > keyboard is plugged in it continues ok. Without boot manager it just hangs > without ever displaying the initial boot: prompt. The machine boots MS-DOS > OK in the same configuration. Do you have perchance an older boot block that tries to boot with the serial console in this case? (This was _intention_.) > The other machine loads the kernel ok, but then hangs at the sc0 probe. As > soon as the kbd is plugged in, it continues. I've also noticed that sc0 hangs without a keyboard. Give the pcvt driver a try (until somebody has fixed the problem). I'm regularly booting machines without keyboard with pcvt. It's a bit slow during startup (since it tries to reset the kbd hardware but fails), but will work then. Btw., syscons could handle this back in 1.1.5.1. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)