just my crazy suggestion, if you can't get the keyboard to work right for the rootdisk prompt, what about changing it to wait 10 or 15 seconds for a rootdisk insertion and then continuing? would that be difficult/messy to implement?
Well, the standard Mac way of doing things is the check the floppy status and to read whatever gets inserted. That, of course, assumes the floppy hardware provides that information. Actually, i wish the i386 installer would do that, it would save alot of hassle. -- Tovar (who remembers programming the 128K Mac)