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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yeshua.marcam.com!usc!howland.reston.ans.net!news.moneng.mei.com!uwm.edu!caen!usenet.coe.montana.edu!bsd.coe.montana.edu!nate From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Problems with FreeBSD boot floppies! Date: 4 Jan 1994 23:07:28 GMT Organization: Montana State University - Bozeman MT Lines: 30 Message-ID: <2gcsrg$600@pdq.coe.montana.edu> References: <CJ0v8p.Hs3@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: bsd.coe.montana.edu Keywords: keyboard probe In article <CJ0v8p.Hs3@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>, Shawn Slavin <sdslavin@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu> wrote: >Hi. I'm trying to install FreeBSD-1.0-RELEASE on my system, and I get to the >point in the floppy boot where I'm asked, "Proceed with installation? [y]" >The floppies were the most recent as of two weeks ago. > >At this point, I notice that my keyboard is not speaking to the system. Also, >having tried this a few times, I noticed that my keyboard LEDs are all turned >off during the boot (which concerns me, but may not mean anything). This is a known problem in the pcprobe. It's difficult to debug since when you compile a local kernel and/or install the software onto the hard-drive the problem goes away. The solution is to bounce on a key during the probe (I use num-lock since it doesn't affect anything and I can see when the keyboard comes back to life with the LED's) Once you install FreeBSD on the hard-drive it *should* go away, and if it doesn't build a customized kernel which should cause it to go away. Nate -- nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu | Freely available *nix clones benefit everyone, nate@cs.montana.edu | so let's not compete with each other, let's work #: (406) 994-4836 | compete with folks who try to tie us down to home #: (406) 586-0579 | proprietary O.S.'s (Microsloth) - Me