Re: AMD Athlon and booting

2000-03-18 Thread Michael Sperber [Mr. Preprocessor]
> "Mike" == Mike Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> > "Mike" == Mike Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Mike> This has nothing to do with Athlon processors and everything to do with Mike> buggy BIOS code that doesn't set the "extended keyboard present" bit. Mike> Feel free to chec

Re: AMD Athlon and booting

2000-03-17 Thread Annelise Anderson
Just FYI, my Athlon K7-700 with the ASUS motherboard won't boot with an old IBM keyboard unless the reset button is pressed; the screen remains blank. The ASUS web page says this happens in certain combinations of keyboards and ATX power supplies. With another keyboard it's fine. Anneli

Re: AMD Athlon and booting

2000-03-17 Thread Mike Smith
> > "Mike" == Mike Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Mike> This has nothing to do with Athlon processors and everything to do with > Mike> buggy BIOS code that doesn't set the "extended keyboard present" bit. > Mike> Feel free to check the (very simple) code in boot2 that performs keyb

Re: AMD Athlon and booting

2000-03-17 Thread Michael Sperber [Mr. Preprocessor]
> "Mike" == Mike Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Mike> This has nothing to do with Athlon processors and everything to do with Mike> buggy BIOS code that doesn't set the "extended keyboard present" bit. Mike> Feel free to check the (very simple) code in boot2 that performs keyboard Mike

Re: AMD Athlon and booting

2000-03-16 Thread Mike Smith
This has nothing to do with Athlon processors and everything to do with buggy BIOS code that doesn't set the "extended keyboard present" bit. Feel free to check the (very simple) code in boot2 that performs keyboard detection, and if you've got any better ideas on how to make this work prope

Re: AMD Athlon and booting

2000-03-16 Thread Brian J. McGovern
Personally, I'm keen with the fact that the problem is known, its understood there isn't an easy fix, and I have a work around. -Brian > > This has nothing to do with Athlon processors and everything to do with > buggy BIOS code that doesn't set the "extended keyboard present" bit.

RE: AMD Athlon and booting

2000-03-16 Thread Brian J. McGovern
Hey, guys. I went a slightly different route than playing with the numlock key to get FreeBSD running. The problem seems to really be the -P (probe the keyboard) boot option, and it setting -D and -h when it doesn't find it. My "workaround" was to make boot floppies, and edit boot.conf to remove