From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Nov 9 09:21:59 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id JAA09949 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 9 Nov 1996 09:21:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA09941 for ; Sat, 9 Nov 1996 09:21:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id SAA20968; Sat, 9 Nov 1996 18:21:10 +0100 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id SAA09535; Sat, 9 Nov 1996 18:21:09 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.2/8.6.9) id SAA02880; Sat, 9 Nov 1996 18:01:58 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199611091701.SAA02880@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Bootstrap doesn't recognize keyboardless config To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Sat, 9 Nov 1996 18:01:58 +0100 (MET) Cc: pam@polynet.lviv.ua Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199611091615.SAA07885@NetSurfer.lp.lviv.ua> from Adrian Pavlykevych at "Nov 9, 96 06:15:50 pm" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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. ;-)