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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!caen!uunet!mcsun!Germany.EU.net!news.netmbx.de!mailgzrz.TU-Berlin.DE!math.fu-berlin.de!fub!obh.in-berlin.de!aeon.in-berlin.de!thomas From: thomas@aeon.in-berlin.de (Thomas Wolfram) Subject: Re: OS-BS & Codrv (was:Re: Want info on German Boot Manager thingy please) Message-ID: <BzBuJ0.op@aeon.in-berlin.de> Organization: Cities in Dust References: <ricky.724300453@lindblat.cc.monash.edu.au> <6051@rosie.NeXT.COM> <veit.724405437@du9ds3> <veit.724415647@du9ds3> Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 00:54:35 GMT Lines: 47 In <veit.724415647@du9ds3> veit@du9ds3.fb9dv.uni-duisburg.de (Holger Veit) writes: >In <veit.724405437@du9ds3> veit@du9ds3.fb9dv.uni-duisburg.de (Holger Veit) writes: >Some addendum to a possible problem between the partition switcher OS-BS >mentioned above and my console driver CODRV: >(excerpt from BUGLIST.151292, only bug added since BUGLIST.011292): >------- >BUG 14: The old pccons worked. Codrv hangs after showing the Copyright > message. I use Thomas Wolfram's "os-bs" (osbs-132/134) > partition switcher. >FIX 14: os-bs is broken in that way that the keyboard character to be > entered is not correctly removed from the keyboard queue. > OS-BS does not use, for some unknown reasons, BIOS Interrupt 16h, > but fiddles with the keyboard controller itself. This causes a > release code to be left in the keyboard queue, when a selection > key is pressed. This code irriates the codrv attach routine and > causes 386bsd to hang. The problem (with a different effect) also > occurs with OS/2 2.0 with the first keyboard request. I know myself some installations with OS/2 and os-bs working fine. > Fix: This should be fixed in OS-BS, but it is unknown whether the > author is still available. I'm alive!!! (I don't read this group regulary.) But I'll try to fix it soon and make a new version 1.35. > The next version of codrv will address this problem for 386bsd. > Workarounds: > 1. Make 386bsd the default partition, and let it timeout. > The effect in other (DOS-type) OS versions is not so extreme > (mostly additional character at first keyboard access). The > effect on Linux or other UNIX versions is unknown. This is no problem for Linux, Interactive, OS/2, DOS. (I've reports.) [...] regards, Thomas -- Thomas Wolfram, thomas@aeon.in-berlin.de EANTC, TU Berlin, wolf@prz.tu-berlin.de, +49 030 31421294