From owner-freebsd-current Fri Nov 16 14:30:52 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from smtp018.mail.yahoo.com (smtp018.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.174.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6EA7137B405 for ; Fri, 16 Nov 2001 14:30:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from mkc-65-30-96-67.kc.rr.com (HELO yahoo.com) (65.30.96.67) by smtp.mail.vip.sc5.yahoo.com with SMTP; 16 Nov 2001 22:30:48 -0000 Message-ID: <3BF59392.5040603@yahoo.com> Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2001 16:30:42 -0600 From: Jim Bryant Reply-To: kc5vdj@yahoo.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i386; en-US; rv:0.9.4) Gecko/20011019 Netscape6/6.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Chris Dempsey Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BTX issue, and general report on SMP issues... References: <20011115194337.61291.qmail@web13403.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG It's not the BIOS failing it... The BTX bootstrap loader V 1.00 detects the keyboard, and refuses to proceed without it. Chris Dempsey wrote: > Try changing the BIOS options regarding failing on all > errors. After changing my Tyan Thunder K7 to not fail > on keyboard failures, it was able to boot fine. > > Also, if you intend to use a USB keyboard permanently, > you may wish to comment out atkbdc from your kernel > configuration file. This will make it easier to set > up kbdcontrol with the USB keyboard. > > Let me know if you have further questions. > > Chris Dempsey jim -- ET has one helluva sense of humor! He's always anal-probing right-wing schizos! ----------------------------------------------------- POWER TO THE PEOPLE! ----------------------------------------------------- "Religious fundamentalism is the biggest threat to international security that exists today." United Nations Secretary General B.B.Ghali, 1995 _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message