> I have an IBM ps/2 8525 (an 8086 CPU). The booting of ELKS works well except
> by some problems when trying to mount the hard disk (I think it's toasted
> because don't works even with DOS). But the real problem comes when the
> Login prompt appears. I can't write noting. The keyboard is completly dead.
> I have a PS/2 enhanced keyboard with 104 keys.
I don't acutally have _any_ PS/2 machine, but other people do. In my
personal opinion (and i am willing to bet on it) recompiling kernel (and
using BIOS driver instead of direct one) would do the trick.
If you look from the other point - IBM didn't really invent the BIOS (GR
did), but they relied heavily on their BIOS being competitive advantage
in ()then developing) PC market. BIOS povides standard access to system
devices to any OS (or program) and i guess DOS uses BIOS to get keyboard
input. If BIOS is designed to work exactly the same on each and every
100% compatible box (and especially IBM) then BIOS console driver should
work on any box with IBM compatible BIOS (and IBM BIOS surely is IBM
compatible).
So my suggestion to all the people that encountered this particular
problem with this particual IBM machine was to recompile the kernel with
BIOS console driver instead of direct one. Sadly enough no1 ever took
those 5 minutes that are needed to recompile ELKS kernel, they just kept
whining for on and on. I hope you will be the first one to try and prove
me right (or wrong). Anyway. it won't take you more than 5 minutes on
any reasonably fast machine, like P200 or something) to prove or
disprove my theory and crush my faith in BIOS compatibility. And no, i
don't need any examples refering to incompatible BIOSes of some sort, i
do believe that keyboard input is one of most basic and simplest bits to
write.
bye, Ab
