From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Apr 27 14:21:46 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mass.cdrom.com (mass.cdrom.com [204.216.28.184]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ECE0F37B540 for ; Thu, 27 Apr 2000 14:21:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Received: from mass.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA00669; Thu, 27 Apr 2000 14:28:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <200004272128.OAA00669@mass.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Cc: Chris Shenton , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4.0-RELEASE ASUS K7V floppy boot fails -- register dump In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 27 Apr 2000 12:02:14 PDT." <749.956862134@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 14:28:05 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > Got a new ASUS K7V with AMD K7 700Mhz processor trying to install > > FreeBSD-4.0 from the kern.flp on ftp.freebsd.org. It dumps the > > registers immediately after saying > > Mount the kern floppy on another FreeBSD box and do some surgery on > it along the following lines: > > mount /dev/fd0 /mnt > rm /mnt/boot.config > umount /mnt > > That should keep the -P flag out of your boot line and ensure that the > keyboard is properly detected. I think our use of -P was over-eager > since there are motherboards which don't play nice with it, like this > one. Actually, this is entirely irrelevant. The keyboard detection code is passive, and simply reads a flag in low memory (which this board is setting correctly). I don't have a good idea of what's going wrong here, but it's the current spanner in getting your build box out of my hair. 8( -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message