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From: dchester@cwis.unomaha.edu (Daniel P. Chester)
Subject: Keyboard problem.....
Message-ID: <1993Jul18.030935.22304@news.unomaha.edu>
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Organization: University of Nebraska at Omaha
Date: Sun, 18 Jul 1993 03:09:35 GMT
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Hi,
  I'm a grad student at The Univ of Neb @ Omaha and I ran into a snag while   
trying to install 386BSD on my system.  During initial boot-up, I get a
message telling me that my keyboard isn't connected.  The message is
coming from pccons.c and seems to be related to a call to a DELAY routine.
The only argument to DELAY is a hard-coded integer of 2000.  At the end
of the line is a comment that reads "CROCK!".  Apparently the author didn't
like it either.  Anyway, has anyone out there seen this before?  Could a
fix be as easy as increasing this delay?  I get the feeling that my
keyboard isn't responing fast enough, so it looks like it's not there. I'd
appreciate any suggestions.
					Thanks.
					   Dan Chester

					dchester@cwis.unomaha