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From: mnewell@nhqvax.hq.nasa.gov
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Booting 386bsd from a 486dx2 machine 
Message-ID: <1993Apr20.191542.358@nhqvax.hq.nasa.gov>
Date: 20 Apr 93 19:15:42 +0600
References: <1993Apr19.071241.24691@gmd.de> <735240531snz@hactar.demon.co.uk>
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The patch kit didn't work for me either...  That's why I came up with
this workaround.  Of course, I know it's not very pretty; it does have
the advantage that it works, though...  Perhaps a larger value for DELAY???

Mike Newell
NASA Science Internet

<735240531snz@hactar.demon.co.uk>, alan@hactar.demon.co.uk (Alan Benson) writes:
> 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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