From owner-freebsd-current Tue Apr 21 19:23:15 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA21834 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 21 Apr 1998 19:23:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from shrimp.dataplex.net (shrimp.dataplex.net [208.2.87.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA21773 for ; Wed, 22 Apr 1998 02:22:56 GMT (envelope-from rkw@Dataplex.NET) Received: from [208.2.87.6] (user6.dataplex.net [208.2.87.6]) by shrimp.dataplex.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA20879; Tue, 21 Apr 1998 21:22:44 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from rkw@dataplex.net) X-Sender: rkw@mail.dataplex.net Message-Id: In-Reply-To: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Tue, 21 Apr 1998 21:22:35 -0500 To: Tom From: Richard Wackerbarth Subject: Re: Free BSD and Windows Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 8:33 PM -0500 4/21/98, Tom wrote: >> With that setting, I get into the boot blocks >> as expected. I get to "Default: F1" and it hangs >> uptil I plug in a keyboard. Only then does it >> proceed to the Boot: prompt. > > Booteasy probably depends on a keyboard. > > Booteasy is not useful on a serial-console system anyhow, and probably >should not be installed. It is also useless on a dedicated FreeBSD box of >any kind. > >> On my old P-5, I could boot without a keyboard. > > Keyboard BIOS is probably different. > >Tom Thanks for the suggestion. I don't TOTALLY agree that booteasy is not useful. Some times it is nice to have a machine that you can simply plug in a keyboard and reboot into the otherwise unused OS that has reasonable tools and manufacturers' diagnostics. Any way, I gave booteasy the boot and now it still hangs before the boot help screen. I guess I'll have to take a look at that code and see if it does some kbd action at its start. Richard Wackerbarth To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message