From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 6 18:41:15 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from server.baldwin.cx (jobaldwi.campus.vt.edu [198.82.67.146]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 12C8037BEA9 for ; Mon, 6 Mar 2000 18:41:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from john.baldwin.cx (john [10.0.0.2]) by server.baldwin.cx (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA02889; Mon, 6 Mar 2000 21:41:05 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Message-Id: <200003070241.VAA02889@server.baldwin.cx> X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <200003070020.QAA19992@clavin.efn.org> Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2000 21:41:04 -0500 (EST) From: John Baldwin To: Boaz Klappholz Subject: RE: Initial Boot Failure, possible unsupported hardware? Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 07-Mar-00 Boaz Klappholz wrote: > Greetings, > > My problem: Initial booting hangs using two tested boot disks. > > I see: > > Searching for Boot rEcord from Floppy..OK > > /boot.config: -P > Keyboard: no > > BTX Boot loader 1.00 BTX version is 1.01 > > then it hangs. > > The machine is: > > AMD k7-700 on a SD11 MB from FIC > 256 megs of PC100 ram > 15.2 gig Maxtor drive ATA-66 > some standard IDE floppy > A NEC CD-Rom drive, IDE > STB Velocity 128 AGP video card > Intel EtherExpress 10/100 NIC Do you have a USB keyboard? If your BIOS doesn't fully emulate your USB keyboard as a normal keyboard the boot floppies can't see it. :( -- John Baldwin -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.cslab.vt.edu/~jobaldwi/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message