On Mon, 19 Jul 1999, Dan Olson wrote:
> A few of us had this exact same problem on PS/2 machines, and I believe
> the problem ended up not being the disk drive but rather the keyboard not
> being detected. A simple test, if you can do it, would be to try the
> combo boot/root image, and see if it hangs or not. Sence you are using
> 5.25" disks (right?) I take it you don't have a PS/2 as they came with
> 720k drives. I believe the combo image requires at least 720k disk space,
> so if you have a machine that can read a 720k disk, it may be a good test.
> Hope this helps, good luck.
>
I just tried it and found the same thing on a ps2. It's the keyboard that
it has a problem with. With the comb image it mounts the root disk fine,
runs init fine, then you can't login because of the keyboard.
What is so special about ps/2 keyboards?
Luke(Boo) Farrar.
> Dan
>
>
> On Thu, 15 Jul 1999, Jeff Stanton wrote:
> > The problem is that the system does not mount the root disk (AFAIK) I let
> > it spin the root disk for 5 minutes after pressing enter, but nothing
> > happens. But since it works for you, it's probably a problem with my
> > disks. I found another pair of disks, and will try it again tomorrow.
> > -Jeff
> >
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