5.02 boot has a dead keyboard

[BizarroTerl]

This is strange. If I attempt to boot to system maintenance (hit enter at boot, then attempt to enter the root password to enter system maintenance mode) the keyboard doesn't work. Control D doesn't either. I have to press reset. Booting with timeout works fine.

Does anyone have any ideas as to what's happening with this?

 

[BizarroTerl]

Anyone have any ideas?

 

[edfair]

Probably would have you copy boot off your EBD to see if it helps. Ed Fair
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[BizarroTerl]

The only pertinent difference I can see is that MAPKEY is NO on the EBD and is YES on the HD. I'll try it tonight when I replace a tape drive.

 

[BizarroTerl]

Well, That didn't make a bit of difference.

 

[drtrinidad]

I experienced the same behaviour a few years ago when I put an Openserver hard drive into a faster computer.

You might find useful the information regarding timing at

http://stage.caldera.com/cgi-bin/ssl_reference?104836

It also refers to a patch, but that is specifically for 5.0.0

 

[BizarroTerl]

Thanks, but the problem I'm having isn't intermittent. The console keyboard works fine, as long as I let it age past the autoboot timeout and boot up automatically. If I attempt to do any keyboard entry before the autoboot timeout the keyboard goes dead (after the inital return at the boot prompt).