From owner-freebsd-current Wed Oct 7 07:08:52 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA25352 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 7 Oct 1998 07:08:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from tim.xenologics.com (tim.xenologics.com [194.77.5.24]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA25316 for ; Wed, 7 Oct 1998 07:08:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from seggers@semyam.dinoco.de) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by tim.xenologics.com (8.8.5/8.8.8) with UUCP id QAA16910; Wed, 7 Oct 1998 16:05:12 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from semyam.dinoco.de (semyam.dinoco.de [127.0.0.1]) by semyam.dinoco.de (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA25584; Wed, 7 Oct 1998 14:40:28 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from seggers@semyam.dinoco.de) Message-Id: <199810071240.OAA25584@semyam.dinoco.de> To: "Viren R. Shah" cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, seggers@semyam.dinoco.de Subject: Re: boot loader problems.. In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 06 Oct 1998 13:35:36 EDT." <199810061735.NAA00682@jabberwock.rstcorp.com> Date: Wed, 07 Oct 1998 14:40:26 +0200 From: Stefan Eggers Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Hit [enter] to boot immediately or .... > > prompt. > > At this point my /boot/boot.conf file was empty. > > I had to put a "boot /kernel.aout" into the /boot/boot.conf file. My Known bug. Has to do with the BIOS using keyboard code in the boot loader. Happens for me (Award Modular BIOS 4.51PG) when I either abort the memory check at cold start or have a boot password and thus entered it. If there were no keypresses the code worked for me as expected, though it is incorrect. > Is there an intermediate solution where it will wait 5 seconds before > autobooting kernel.aout? Don't do any keypresses before you reach the boot loader. :-( At least with my BIOS correct keyboard code doesn't work (tried it yesterday evening) and I don't know why. It could be a BIOS bug or a bug with returning flags in the new boot loader's VM86 code I think. I don't know enough of it at present do decide what of these both it is. You could use a serial console instead of keyboard/video card. Then you won't see this problem for obvious reasons - it uses different code for I/O then. An unused old PC with Dos+Terminal emulator or using a.out FreeBSD will do for this. Stefan. -- Stefan Eggers Lu4 yao2 zhi1 ma3 li4, Max-Slevogt-Str. 1 ri4 jiu3 jian4 ren2 xin1. 51109 Koeln Federal Republic of Germany To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message