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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!skates.gsfc.nasa.gov!nasahq!lupine.nsi.nasa.gov!mnewell Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: 486DX2 and Tiny BSD? Message-ID: <1993Jun14.194018.443@nhqvax.hq.nasa.gov> From: mnewell@lupine.nsi.nasa.gov. (Mike Newell) Date: 14 Jun 93 19:40:18 +0600 Reply-To: mnewell@lupine.nsi.nasa.gov. References: <1va1b7$5qg@genesis.MCS.COM> Distribution: world Organization: Sun Microsystems Nntp-Posting-Host: lupine.nsi.nasa.gov Lines: 23 I had the sampe problem. Fortunately I was able to use the 386 system to debug the 486; the problem for me turned out (apparently) to be a timing problem in the keyboard initialization code; I added some idling code immediately after the keyboard reset and it cleared the problem up. Two points: I made a boot disk for another user with the patched code, but he says he could never get it to boot. Someone posted a reply to me telling me the patch I used had already been applied (using better code) to the distribution floppy. However, I was using the floppy he indicated had been fixed, and I still had the problem. So... I *WAS* able to boot the NetBSD distribution floppies (after several tries) with no problem. So you might want to drift over to sunlamp.cs.berkeley.edu and grab their boot floppies and see if they work. If you like I can send you the patched version I created to see if it works too... Mike Newell NASA Advanced Network Applications Group