On 6 Jan 2001, at 22:10, Robert Watson wrote:
> Do you know if this fixes the problem the following problem that I started
> experiencing somewhere in the RELENG_4 line? For some machines, if the
> KVM is not pointed at the box, the keyboard will not probe properly, and
> does not respond for that session. As long as I boot with the KVM pointed
> at the machine during the boot process, it probes fine. This doesn't seem
> to impact the boot loaders, only after the kernel has loaded and probed.
> It's really annoying as my crashbox has this problem, so I have to swap to
> it every time I boot, and given the need to type continue in the serial
> gdb, I often miss the window.
This is probably not helpful to your situation, but thought I should
contribute this as it is KVM related.
I just bought a KVM switch (My Hopper, by Rextron Technology). I
bought 10M cables to use with it. The FreeBSD box won't boot if I use
those cables. It thinks the keyboard isn't there. Note: this appears to
be a BIOS problem as if I want long enough, I get the "keyboard not
found, press F1 to continue" message. If I don't use the 10M cables,
the box boots as expected.
Yes, I've thought of enabling no-keyboard booting, but there is no setting
in the BIOS. It's on the motherboard I'm told and I've yet to open the
box and find it.
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