Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2001 15:47:12 -0600 From: Jim Bryant <kc5vdj@yahoo.com> To: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Chris Dempsey <chrisdempsey@yahoo.com>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BTX issue, and general report on SMP issues... Message-ID: <3BF97DE0.3090007@yahoo.com> References: <XFMail.011119093305.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
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John Baldwin wrote:
> On 18-Nov-01 Jim Bryant wrote:
>
>>John Baldwin wrote:
>>
>>
>>>On 16-Nov-01 Jim Bryant wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>It's not the BIOS failing it...
>>>>
>>>>The BTX bootstrap loader V 1.00 detects the keyboard, and refuses to proceed
>>>>without it.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>Err, no. BTX cares zero, zilch, nada about keyboards. Can you please
>>>provide
>>>the error message you get?
>>>
>>
>>It was no error message in particular, everything normally just froze.
>>
>>Anyhow, this is now a solved issue.
>>
>>Apparently, at one point in time a "-P" made itself into /boot.config, once
>>/boot.config was rm'ed, everything sorted itself out.
>>
>
> Oh, so it was booting over serial console, not quite frozen. It just looks
> frozen. :)
exactly...
anyhow, now that this is working, i'm kinda pissed to have lost use of my mouse wheel. apparently the keyboard was made before
wheels became popular.
anyone know a good usb keyboard with a ps/2 mouse port built-in that will translate the wheel on the mouse? once ya get used to the
wheels, it's amazing how much you use it...
jim
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