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Date:      Sat, 15 May 1999 10:14:16 -0700
From:      Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
To:        Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no>
Cc:        Robert Nordier <rnordier@nordier.com>, jdp@polstra.com (John Polstra), mike@smith.net.au, stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: equivalent to "-P" in boot.config 
Message-ID:  <199905151714.KAA00767@dingo.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "15 May 1999 13:34:14 %2B0200." <xzpemki36tl.fsf@localhost.ping.uio.no> 

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> Robert Nordier <rnordier@nordier.com> writes:
> > The -P is completely handled by boot2.  The effect is to set the
> > bootblock -D (dual) and -h (serial) options, if no keyboard is found.
> 
> Unfortunately, the keyboard probe returns false positives on far too
> many motherboards for this to be of any use.

Not this one; you may be thinking of the PROBE_KEYBOARD option in the 
old bootblocks though.

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