Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2002 14:53:25 -0700 From: "Drew Tomlinson" <drew@mykitchentable.net> To: "Matthew Emmerton" <matt@gsicomp.on.ca>, <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Boot Help - I've Gotten Myself Into Quite A Mess! Message-ID: <014601c1e335$a3484980$0301a8c0@bigdaddy> References: <00ca01c1e32f$213034e0$0301a8c0@bigdaddy> <001e01c1e331$d90d1360$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca>
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Matthew Emmerton" <matt@gsicomp.on.ca> To: "Drew Tomlinson" <drew@mykitchentable.net>; <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Saturday, April 13, 2002 2:26 PM Subject: Re: Boot Help - I've Gotten Myself Into Quite A Mess! Thank you for your reply. > > I was recently given an old Pentium 133 and motherboard so I decided > > to replace my 486. I shutdown, opened the case, replaced the > > motherboard, and tried to reboot. Well, DUH! My kernel is compiled > > for a 486 and thus it panics because it finds the Pentium. See below: > > Heh. I won't say how many times that's happened to me. > > > ok LOAD KERNEL.GENERIC > > can't find 'KERNEL.GENERIC' > > > > Is the problem because everything is in all caps? I have pressed the > > caps lock key but it makes no difference. It's in all caps all the > > time. > > I think the boot loader will accept commands in both upper and lower case, > but filenames are case sensitive. > > Before giving you a workaround, have you tried using a different keyboard? > The only time I've seen a keyboard get stuck in all-caps is when it's on its > last legs. I have things set to use COM1 for the console. I have COM1 connected to COM2 on another FBSD box and am accessing the console via tip. Now this used to work just fine with the 486 motherboard and the machine booted. I'm not sure if I ever had to do anything at the command prompt before boot with the 486. But in any event, I don't have a keyboard problem. > In the meantime, what you can do to get this thing to boot is use the > backdoor method of generating ASCII characters from your keyboard. What you > do is hold down ALT, and then punch in 0 and then the 3-digit (decimal) > ASCII code of your lowercase letters -- using the numeric keypad. (It won't > work with numbers along the top of the keyboard.) > > So in your case, type LOAD <space> ALT-0107 ALT-0101 ALT-0114 ALT-0110 > ALT-0101 ALT-0108 <dot> GENERIC <enter> You should see "LOAD > kernel.GENERIC" on your screen, and the loader should be able to find it and > boot from it. OK, now it get's weird. I tried this just as you described and the characters are still displayed in CAPS. So I suspect that it has something to do with using the serial console via tip on another FBSD machine. Then add to it that I'm accessing that machine via SecureCRT on a Windows 2000 platform. I think I need to get things back to "plain vanilla" and start from there. So, any advice on how to get my console to display on a monitor? I attached a monitor and keyboard. Once the boot loader takes over, nothing more is displayed on the monitor. Thanks for your help! Drew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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