From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Apr 27 15:13: 5 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mail.beattie-home.net (148.129.249.209.fastpoint.net [209.249.129.148]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 072D637B96E; Thu, 27 Apr 2000 15:13:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from beattie@beattie-home.net) Received: from raven.pdx.beattie-home.net (raven.pdx.beattie-home.net [192.168.0.1]) by mail.beattie-home.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C278A974; Thu, 27 Apr 2000 15:14:43 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 15:13:26 -0700 (PDT) From: Brian Beattie X-Sender: beattie@raven.pdx.beattie-home.net To: Mike Smith Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , Chris Shenton , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4.0-RELEASE ASUS K7V floppy boot fails -- register dump In-Reply-To: <200004272128.OAA00669@mass.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 27 Apr 2000, Mike Smith wrote: > > > 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( > I would have to say that my experience indicates a flaw in your analysis. I do not know what is doing it, but since the boot process started checking for an extended keyboard, I can not use my compact keyboard in boot, or, I think, single user. It still works fine in multi-user (may be an artifact of X). This keyboard is not an extended keyboard, but I do not have te -P flag set. The keyboard produces garbage. I can understand the keyboard not be recognized, but if I do not do a -P it should still work fine, but does not. Last time I mentioned this, I got pretty much tge same answer you give here. Well you may be right, it coule be an entirely passive operation, but something changed, no matter what you think. I gave up and went back to a regulat keyboard, since nobody seemed interested in listening, to myself and others. > -- > \\ 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 > Brian Beattie | This email was produced using professional quality, beattie@aracnet.com | standards based software. Users of Microsoft beattie@aracnet.com | products or other substandard software should www.aracnet.com/~beattie | contact the author about receiving a Free upgrade to | FreeBSD or Linux. "FreeBSD: The power to serve" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message