Subject: Re: boot fails without mouse?
To: Tom [moof] Spindler <dogcow@Espresso.Merit.Net>
From: Colin Wood <cwood@ichips.intel.com>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 11/03/1997 22:35:00
Tom [moof] Spindler wrote:
> 
> I'm running 1.3_ALPHA on an SE/30 with a kernel (with MRG_ADB enabled) from
> sometime last week, and I've noticed that booting hangs if a mouse isn't
> connected. (The only device plugged in was an Apple Extended Keyboard I.)
> Has anybody else noticed this?
> 
> (plugging the mouse back in after the initial ADB message doesn't continue
> the boot process.)

Well, I'm not running 1.3_ALPHA quite yet, so I can't say for sure, but I
doubt that the mouse is really the problem.  I'd say it's more likely to
be the keyboard.  You might try booting without any ADB devices and see
how that works.  Don't disconnect the keyboard while it's turned on, tho,
you'll risk blowing the ADB controller.

However, it just might be the mouse....can anyone else verify this
behavior???

Later.

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Colin Wood                                 cwood@ichips.intel.com
Component Design Engineer - MD6                 Intel Corporation
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