On Sun, Sep 09, 2001 at 07:30:39AM -0500, Richard Rauch wrote:
> > > > > When you were fighting with the ethernet cards, you were able to use
> > > > > your keyboard to get ifconfig results, correct?
> > > >
> > > > The keyboard works, up until the point NetBSD initialises it in the full
> > > > installation.
> > >
> > > Hm.  Am I to understand that you never actually completed the NetBSD
> > > installation until after you spent a couple of days finding a compatible
> > > ethernet card?  I assumed that you had installed NetBSD and THEN worried
> > > about finding a compatible ethernet card.
> >
> > I had had NetBSD before but due to a major rebuild and some problems with
> > the hardware and disk, had to start from scratch.
> 
> ...okay.  But am I correct in still guessing that you are able to use the
> keyboard when booting with the INSTALL kernel, but lose it when booting
> off of the _installed_ GENERIC kernel?

Indeed, that is the case.

> If yes, then it sounds like a good chance that you can get things rolling
> with a kernel built using pccons (pc0 in the kernel config).
> 
> If no, then things may not be any better now than they were before.
> 
> 
> > > One place to get such a kernel is off of your install disk.  I _think_
> > > that you should be able to boot the install disk, manually mount your hard
> > > disk, copy over the install disk's ``/netbsd'' kernel, unmount the hard
> > > disk, and reboot.  (Well, copy it to something like ``/netbsd.new'' on
> > > your hard disk, and make sure that it's what you want to use.  (^&)
> >
> > I will try this...

... hmmm... it seems I can't mount the floppy! It complains about the
superblock when I try.

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