Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2001 12:32:44 -0800 From: "Jeremiah Gowdy" <jgowdy@home.com> To: <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Keyboard mouse on reboot Message-ID: <000201c07a7d$274d1e40$035778d8@server>
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This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_000B_01C07A38.43E39740 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I have a pair of IBM Netfinity Servers, one of which is running FreeBSD. = When I reboot the FreeBSD server remotely, and the belkin box is = pointing to the Windows 2000 computer (the FreeBSD server is not = touching the monitor, keyboard, mouse) the FreeBSD server will reboot, = but the keyboard and mouse fail to function. I have to ssh in and = reboot the server again locally and switch the belkin box to the BSD = computer while it boots. I noticed on the reboot, the BTX loader says = monitor/keyboard/mouse when I boot normally, so I'm wondering if this = loader decides I don't have a keyboard/mouse if my belkin is pointed = elsewhere. ------=_NextPart_000_000B_01C07A38.43E39740 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=3DContent-Type content=3D"text/html; = charset=3Diso-8859-1"> <META content=3D"MSHTML 5.50.4522.1800" name=3DGENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=3D#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>I have a pair of IBM Netfinity Servers, = one of=20 which is running FreeBSD. When I reboot the FreeBSD server = remotely, and=20 the belkin box is pointing to the Windows 2000 computer (the FreeBSD = server is=20 not touching the monitor, keyboard, mouse) the FreeBSD server will = reboot, but=20 the keyboard and mouse fail to function. I have to ssh in and = reboot the=20 server again locally and switch the belkin box to the BSD computer while = it=20 boots. I noticed on the reboot, the BTX loader says = monitor/keyboard/mouse=20 when I boot normally, so I'm wondering if this loader decides I don't = have a=20 keyboard/mouse if my belkin is pointed = elsewhere.</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML> ------=_NextPart_000_000B_01C07A38.43E39740-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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