From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jan 18 11:00:19 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id LAA11797 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 18 Jan 1995 11:00:19 -0800 Received: from remote1-line1.cis.yale.edu (remote1-line1.cis.yale.edu [130.132.57.21]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with ESMTP id LAA11778; Wed, 18 Jan 1995 11:00:12 -0800 Received: (from mrami@localhost) by remote1-line1.cis.yale.edu (8.6.9/8.6.9) id MAA10751; Wed, 18 Jan 1995 12:42:30 -0500 Date: Wed, 18 Jan 1995 12:42:30 -0500 (EST) From: Marc Ramirez To: Terry Lambert cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , wpaul@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu, bde@zeta.org.au, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: serial consoles and keyboard probes In-Reply-To: <9501181615.AA01711@cs.weber.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 18 Jan 1995, Terry Lambert wrote: > The documentation accompanying the changes ought to note this information, > as well as noting how the heck one would put the CMOS back to an installed > keyboard without an installed keyboard, should it become necessary. I've played around with this. :) For keyboard/video, "Not Installed" means successful probe is not necessary for successful boot. You can still use an "uninstalled" keyboard. Marc. -- DeForrest Gump - "Dammit, Jim! Life is like a box of chocolates!"