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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions From: alan@hactar.demon.co.uk (Alan Benson) Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!doc.ic.ac.uk!uknet!pipex!demon!hactar.demon.co.uk!alan Subject: Re: Booting 386bsd from a 486dx2 machine Distribution: world References: <1993Apr19.071241.24691@gmd.de> Organization: Computing Support Services Reply-To: alan@hactar.demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: Simple NEWS 1.90 (ka9q DIS 1.21) Lines: 27 Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1993 17:28:51 +0000 Message-ID: <735240531snz@hactar.demon.co.uk> Sender: usenet@demon.co.uk In article <1993Apr19.071241.24691@gmd.de> veit@mururoa.gmd.de writes: >In article <1993Apr17.183457.351@nhqvax.hq.nasa.gov>, > mnewell@nhqvax.hq.nasa.gov writes: >|> Goodness occurs - I got it to boot!!! >|> >|> The problem was in the "probe" routine of "pccons". It appears there is >|> some problem with sending commands to the KB contoller, then reading >|> them immediately back. After sticking in a couple of hard loops >|> (ok, it's crude - but it worked! Now I can debug it more fully...) >This is quite similar to the DELAY(1000) hack that was in the pccons code >for a long period. The problem should be corrected in the actual patchkit >0.2.2 in a much better way. > The patchkit 0.2.2 doesn't work for me. How about anyone else, ie is this keyboard thing my problem or have I got something else ? dv Alan -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Alan Benson (alan@hactar.demon.co.uk) | Just because you're | | tel : (+44)522 569753 | paranoid it doesn't mean | | snail : 21 Newport, Lincoln, LN1 3DQ, UK. | they're not out to get you! | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------