From owner-freebsd-current Mon Nov 19 14:47:26 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from smtp018.mail.yahoo.com (smtp018.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.174.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4341F37B417 for ; Mon, 19 Nov 2001 14:47:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from mkc-65-30-96-67.kc.rr.com (HELO yahoo.com) (65.30.96.67) by smtp.mail.vip.sc5.yahoo.com with SMTP; 19 Nov 2001 22:47:21 -0000 Message-ID: <3BF97DE0.3090007@yahoo.com> Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2001 15:47:12 -0600 From: Jim Bryant Reply-To: kc5vdj@yahoo.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i386; en-US; rv:0.9.4) Gecko/20011019 Netscape6/6.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: John Baldwin Cc: Chris Dempsey , freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BTX issue, and general report on SMP issues... References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 -- ET has one helluva sense of humor! He's always anal-probing right-wing schizos! ----------------------------------------------------- POWER TO THE PEOPLE! ----------------------------------------------------- "Religious fundamentalism is the biggest threat to international security that exists today." United Nations Secretary General B.B.Ghali, 1995 _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message