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To: Brian Litzinger <brian@mediacity.com>
cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Non existent keyboard found during serial console boot 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 20 Sep 95 18:33:50 PDT."
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From: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM>
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Date: Wed, 20 Sep 1995 18:45:45 -0700
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>in sys/i386/boot/biosboot/README.serial it says:
>
>- BOOT THE MACHINE. The boot block will probe for a keyboard on your
>  system. If it fails to find one, you'll see a prompt appear on the
>  terminal that looks something like this:
>
>  No keyboard found.
>
>  >> FreeBSD BOOT @ 0x10000: 640/7168 k of memory
>  Use hd(1,a)/kernel to boot sd0 when wd0 is also installed.
> 
>My system does not have a keyboard attached and at this point 
>'No keyboard found.' fails appear. The system boots up
>on the VGA display as it usually does.
>
>Using 
>   boot: /kernel -h
>it boots correctly via the serial console.
>
>I'm about to use the FORCE_COMCONSOLE option, but I like the idea
>of having a choice at boot time.
>
>What have I done wrong?
>
>I'm running a -current as of just before the sig 11 nightmare.

   The auto keyboard probe/serial console selector was disabled when it was
found to cause problems on some machines. ...That's why you now have to
hardwire it with FORCE_COMCONSOLE.

-DG