Date: Sat, 9 Nov 1996 18:01:58 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Cc: pam@polynet.lviv.ua Subject: Re: Bootstrap doesn't recognize keyboardless config Message-ID: <199611091701.SAA02880@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199611091615.SAA07885@NetSurfer.lp.lviv.ua> from Adrian Pavlykevych at "Nov 9, 96 06:15:50 pm"
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As Adrian Pavlykevych wrote: > ..., but README.serial in > /usr/src/sys/i386/boot/biosboot states that default behaviour of > bootstrap code is as follows: if it detects keyboard it starts with > video console, if no it switches to serial console. I can't get it > to work this way. > It seems that bootstrap doesn't detect that keyboard is absent. README.serial is wrong... this feature has been disabled since we didn't find a way to realiably probe for the existance of a keyboard. It broke too many setups by reverting to a serial console where a keyboard was actually present. D*mn PC hardware! -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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