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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Unexpected problems booting w/o keyboard
Date: 27 Jun 1996 20:59:15 GMT
Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden
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dirt@umich.edu (david langhorst) wrote:
> i'm running freeBSD on a couple of machines and have come across a
> interesting problem. when booting without a keyboard on both
> machines, the machine grinds to a halt while probing the ISA bus.
``The well-known retries bug.'' :-)
Index: i386/isa/syscons.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/cvs/src/sys/i386/isa/syscons.c,v
retrieving revision 1.148
retrieving revision 1.149
diff -u -u -r1.148 -r1.149
--- syscons.c 1996/05/11 23:16:23 1.148
+++ syscons.c 1996/05/12 12:36:59 1.149
@@ -233,7 +233,7 @@
}
}
gotres:
- if (!retries)
+ if (retries < 0)
printf("scprobe: keyboard won't accept RESET command\n");
else {
i = 10; /* At most 10 retries. */
--
cheers, J"org
joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)