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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!not-for-mail From: mike.long@analog.com (Mike Long) Newsgroups: alt.sys.pc-clone.gateway2000,comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: FreeBSD install problems on Gateway2000 DX66V Date: 20 Oct 1993 10:32:21 -0500 Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway Lines: 53 Sender: daemon@cs.utexas.edu Message-ID: <9310201531.AA10660@cthulhu> References: <199310201510.JAA15583@bsd.coe.montana.edu> Reply-To: Mike Long <Mike.Long@analog.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.utexas.edu >From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) >Date: Wed, 20 Oct 1993 09:10:52 -0600 > >> I tried installation first with internal and external CPU caches on, >> and it hung on the first "Do you want to install FreeBSD (y/n)" >> question, after I put in the filesystem-floppy. > >Is it hung or does the keyboard not respond? > >(I suspect that the keyboard is not working. I know we fixed it, but it's >not fixed) How can you tell the difference? ;) I did suspect the keyboard; there were no panic messages, or anything. >> When I turned both caches off, I managed to get all the way through >> the install process, reboot, fsck cleans up filesystem, reboot, get >> login: prompt. The machine would ALWAYS hang at this point. > >I have a very strong clue that if you bounce on the keyboard when booting >up you'll get the machine to quit 'hanging'. I have been having problems >on PC's here with the problem, and by bouncing on a key (I use num-lock so >I can see the LED's flicker when the keyboard is back on line) I can guarantee >the KB probe to work correctly. Never thought of that. Another thing that happens during both FreeBSD and NetBSD boot processes is that the NumLock LED gets turned off, but I think that is normal. What is a keyboard probe, and why is it necessary? >This problem is independent of the cache. The caches off probably messed >with the timing of the probe code enough to make it work. > >Since it appears NetBSD still works, we need to figure out why the keyboard >stuff doesn't work in FreeBSD. Something bad is being done, and I'm getting >lots of cases where once we get the machine installed and running a local >kernel all of the keyboard problems go away here. When FreeBSD froze at the login: prompt it had booted off of the kernel on my hard drive. >Nate PS: With NetBSD, I get the "wdc0: extra interrupt" messages that some others have reported. They don't seem to affect anything, but I wonder where they come from. They occur during autoconfiguration at boot time and when I modify the disklabel on the disk. I only have one IDE drive, on my motherboard's built-in controller. Thoughts? -- Mike Long Mike.Long@Analog.com VLSI Design Engineer voice: (617)461-4030 Analog Devices, SPD Div. FAX: (617)461-3010 Norwood, MA 02062 *this = !opinion(Analog);