> > Favourite worst written error message in history: > > > > Keyboard not found. Press F1 to continue. > > I have always loved this one!! Who made that up!?
Someone at IBM. That's what the original IBM PC, PC-AT, and (presumably) PC-XT displayed if the keyboard was dead or not plugged in. It was probably a case of modular code: any problem in POST would display a message and return a "fail" status, and the generic code would append "Press F1 to continue." and wait. Not a bad idea at all -- certainly better than blindly trying to boot the machine without giving the operator a chance to decide what to do about the problem -- but this particular combination does have a chicken- egg aspect :( _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
