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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 
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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
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