Subject: Re: Keyboard on B/W G3 - This drives me nuts!
To: Hans-Christian Becker <hcb@phc.chalmers.se>
From: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@nas.nasa.gov>
List: port-macppc
Date: 06/01/1999 17:48:10
On Tue, 1 Jun 1999, Hans-Christian Becker wrote:

> Hello again.
> After having installed 1.4 (by hand), I couldn't figure out how to boot
> from wd1. Finally the idea struck me  to build (from todays source) an
> extremely customized kernel which forces root to wd1a. Fine, I netboot OK,
> the boot goes fine, the file systems are checked, but again, the keyboard
> is dead as a doornail. I stripped out things from the config file to the

Try a -current kernel. My B&W keyboard works there. I'll see if we can get
the changes into 1.4.1.

> point where the kernel died very early in the boot process, but nothing
> helps. I am cross-compiling on a 386. If anyone has a patch for this, or
> has a working kernel he/she would like to recompile with root on wd1a, or
> has the source for it, or *anything*, please mail me. I soon go berzerk
> over this :-(

Take care,

Bill