>>>>> On Mon 27/11/00, "sb" = Scott Bartram wrote:

  sb> I was upgrading an AMI BIOS 486 box to 1.5 yesterday. After
  sb> installation and rebooting a GENERIC-based kernel with wscons,
  sb> the keyboard was completely locked up. The system was otherwise
  sb> functional. I tried all kinds of different kernels until I
  sb> realized that INSTALL doesn't use wscons.  Building a new kernel
  sb> with pccons fixed it.

Did you check the wscons devices had been created?  (Do it
using "./MAKEDEV wscons" in /dev).

Mark <><