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Date:      Thu, 27 Jan 2000 15:29:53 -0800
From:      Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org>
To:        Brian Beattie <beattie@aracnet.com>
Cc:        Bill Fenner <fenner@research.att.com>, rcarter@pinyon.org, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Problems installing FreeBSD 4.0 20000125-CURRENT 
Message-ID:  <200001272329.PAA02514@mass.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 27 Jan 2000 14:47:59 PST." <Pine.LNX.4.10.10001271426150.10160-100000@shell1.aracnet.com> 

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> On Thu, 27 Jan 2000, Bill Fenner wrote:
> 
> > 
> > >Right.  I've seen this when I hit Enter rapidly twice at the first
> > >loader prompt.  Doesn't ever happen if I wait for the second
> > >prompt.
> > 
> > That's my impression too -- I've seen it on my laptop when I do
> > that (sometimes), and I may have hit enter twice rapidly on this
> > reboot.
> > 
> >   Bill
> Hmmm, I wonder it the boot loader is doing something funny in initializing
> the keyboard.  Maybe something changed?

It doesn't do anything to the keyboard, it just calls the BIOS to find 
out whether keys have been pressed.

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\\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself,  \\  msmith@freebsd.org
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