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On Tue, 27 May 1997 00:37:38 +0200 (CEST),
 Philipp Grau <phgrau@piak.snafu.de> wrote:

> My HIL_keyboard is a keyboard with a german layout. Throught all
> configuration step for selection boot method, disklabel, miniroot
> and booting it works fine. But when the kernel is loaded and 
> prompts me for a shell, every keypress results in a:  H^@^@^@?/
> Whats that? Is there a chance to make my keyboard work???

You have come across a well-known (and fixed in -current) bug,
where an unsupported/unknown keyboard caused an "invalid" keymap
to be assigned. Your options at this point:

	i)  try to borrow a supported (US-ASCII, UK, or Swedish)
	    keyboard until you can compile a fixed kernel on your
	    system.

	ii) if i) is not possible, contact me privately and I will
	    make a 1.2.1 miniroot containing a fixed kernel available.


-klaus