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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!saimiri.primate.wisc.edu!usenet.coe.montana.edu!nate From: nate@cs.montana.edu (Nate Williams) Subject: Re: Help booting dist.fs on my 386DX-33 Message-ID: <1993Mar2.205449.15048@coe.montana.edu> Sender: usenet@coe.montana.edu (USENET News System) Organization: Dept. of Computer Science, MSU, Bozeman Mt 59717 References: <1993Feb23.041216.19646@alw.nih.gov> <11370@tivoli.UUCP> Date: Tue, 2 Mar 1993 20:54:49 GMT Lines: 20 In article <11370@tivoli.UUCP> steveb@tivoli.UUCP (Steve Benz) writes: > >I tried installing 386BSD recently, and this was merely the first of >a great many problems I encountered... The answer to this riddle (for >me) was to press & release the left shift key... This, for reasons >best known to a kernel hacker, unsticks it. This is from the keyboard driver. What *YOU* need to do (most people have to remove this patch) is apply patch00083, which should fix the particular problem you are experiencing. Nate -- osynw@terra.oscs.montana.edu | Still trying to find a good reason for nate@cs.montana.edu | these 'computer' things. Personally, work #: (406) 994-4836 | I don't think they'll catch on - home #: (406) 586-0579 | Don Hammerstrom