From owner-freebsd-current Wed Oct 7 06:45:53 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA20636 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 7 Oct 1998 06:45:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (castles29.castles.com [208.214.165.29]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA20620 for ; Wed, 7 Oct 1998 06:45:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA02925; Wed, 7 Oct 1998 06:20:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199810071320.GAA02925@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: "Louis A. Mamakos" cc: Mike Smith , Stefan Eggers , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Two /boot/loader anomalies In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 06 Oct 1998 20:22:10 EDT." <199810070022.UAA12234@whizzo.transsys.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 07 Oct 1998 06:20:07 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > > > > that the "autoboot 5" I specified in /boot/boot.conf does get executed > > > > > but has no count down. I have to press ENTER to get it to boot. My > > > > > > > You'll get this if the timer isn't working properly. I've seen a > > > > couple of reports of this, but I haven't been able to reproduce it yet. > > > > > > Really strange. The call seems to be correct. :-( > > > > I'm working on it at the moment. It doesn't help that I don't know > > what's wrong. 8( I may have to revert to using the RTC hardware. 8( > > Hmm.. I thought I was crazy as I've seen this too. On my P-133 system > with an old AMI BIOS, I did get the countdown. I noticed yesterday that > on my Dell Latitude laptop (with an Award BIOS, but I'm not sure and > don't have it handy at the moment), I don't get the countdown, either. Please try again; there were errors in the keypress detection logic. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message