On 14 Sep 2000 10:35:00 -0500, John Franklin wrote:
>On Thu, Sep 14, 2000 at 12:07:44AM +0000, Kent Polk wrote:
[...] 
>> What the heck is taking out the keyboard during the boot sequence?
>
>I've had problems with a similar machine (P100) when I turned on
>pnpbios support for the keyboard.  Does the dmesg output show it
>finding the pckbc?

Interesting... First, I see no evidence that the bios supports PnP,
(though it does have three PCI slots but I'm not sure of the PnP
timeframe wrt PCI)

Despite no appearance of PnP:

| isapnp0 at isa0 port 0x279: ISA Plug 'n Play device support