On Tuesday 10 January 2006 09:11 am, Danny Braniss wrote: > I can't tell when this broke, but compiling pxeboot with > BOOT_PXELDR_PROBE_KEYBOARD set would redirect the console to the serial > port if no keyboard was detected. This no longer works, which explains > the problems i had with the serial port on my intel 1U servers. > > the relevant code is in /sys/boot/i386/pxeldr/pxeldr.S. > > compiling with BOOT_PXELDR_ALWAYS_SERIAL works as expected, so IMHO > the test: > testb $KEYBOARD_BIT, MEM_BIOS_KEYBOARD # keyboard present? > is failing, but i have no idea why > > any ideas?
USB keyboards? Actually, it sounds in your case as if the BIOS is always claiming a keyboard is present. Perhaps your BIOS is just being lame, but that single test isn't the greatest test to use either. -- John Baldwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve" = http://www.FreeBSD.org _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"