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Subject: Re: 2.2-961006-SNAP keyboard lockup
To: dufault@hda.com (Peter Dufault)
Date: Fri, 18 Oct 1996 13:54:01 +0200 (MET DST)
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In-Reply-To: <199610181221.IAA25552@hda.com> from "Peter Dufault" at Oct 18, 96 08:21:35 am
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In reply to Peter Dufault who wrote:
> 
> The old "hit key during boot up or no keyboard input is possible" problem
> from way back has resurfaced with the new boot floppies on a "Dell
> Dimension 486DX2-50" 1992 AMI BIOS.  This is reproducible.

That must be the changes to the boot blocks, syscons hasn't 
changed in that area for a pretty long time..



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Soren Schmidt             (sos@FreeBSD.org)             FreeBSD Core Team
               So much code to hack -- so little time.