From owner-freebsd-newbies Wed Jul 19 4:41:46 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from chmls06.mediaone.net (chmls06.mediaone.net [24.147.1.144]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A548637BAE3 for ; Wed, 19 Jul 2000 04:41:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gary@caramia.com) Received: from [24.147.44.120] (h0005022bd838.ne.mediaone.net [24.147.44.120]) by chmls06.mediaone.net (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id HAA15114 for ; Wed, 19 Jul 2000 07:41:41 -0400 (EDT) Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: gary@caramia.com@mailhost.caramia.net Message-Id: In-Reply-To: References: <000b01bff0cb$f90fe8e0$57e17ad1@beefstew> Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 07:41:22 -0400 To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org From: Gary Girolimon Subject: Re: "Keyboard: No" message at boot Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Found the answer to my own question in the archives at www.freebsd.org: "FreeBSD's keyboard probe is too fast on the Athlon board for the keyboard controller." "...the problem had something to do with numlock. I was able to confirm this by testing this about two dozen times. Here is what i found: If is off, your keyboard will *not* be found, and you're stuck." So, the workaround is simple. Just press numlock at bootup. >Was about to take the FreeBSD plunge and have already hit my first >wall. When trying to boot from either the CD or a floppy, I get a >message "Keyboard: No" and the system stops. Of course there is a >keyboard and it works fine (and I have tried several models). It >just seems that the FreeBSD installer does not like it. The system >is a newly built Athlon with an MSI Pro motherboard, if that is a >factor. > >Other bootable CDs (Redhat Linux) work fine. > >Any suggestions are appreciated. Gary __________________________ Gary Girolimon PO Box 5733 Manchester, NH 03108 eFax: (419) 730-7062 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message