[OpenIndiana-discuss] No Keyboard boot problem reappeared

[Ben Taylor]

2011/5/5 Attila Fülöp <atf at gesindel.org>:
> On 05/ 5/11 01:06 PM, Robin Axelsson wrote:
>> I cannot get into grub and edit the lines if I don't have a keyboard so that guide is not of much
>> help. I tried to edit the /boot/grub/menu.lst but it looks nothing like the actual menu that I have.
>> The config file for the grub must be somewhere else but where?
>
> bash-4.0# bootadm list-menu
> the location for the active GRUB menu is: /rpool/boot/grub/menu.lst

As I've pointed out before, on my AthlonXP 2600 MB running OI 148,
if I boot -kd to enable the debugger, when the debugger starts, I cannot
type.  If I hot plug the PS/2 keyboard, I can then type, and hit ":c" and
everything works.

It's odd, but maybe will clue someone in.

Ben

>
> HTH
>
> Attila
>
>> The keyboard problem is _exactly_ the same as before. When it freezes during boot, if I hot plug a
>> keyboard into the PS/2 port right there and then the boot will resume immediately.
>>
>> On 2011-05-04 23:35, Matt Connolly wrote:
>>> Here is a good place to start:
>>>
>>> http://wiki.openindiana.org:8080/display/oi/Boot+hangs
>>>
>>> Good luck!
>>> Matt
>>>
>>>
>>> On 05/05/2011, at 4:51 AM, Blake Irvin<blake.irvin at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>>
>>>> I don't recall them offhand, but they are  documented in a few places.  The old docs.sun.com and
>>>> google are your friends :)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> sent from a Unix host smaller than my open hand.
>>>>
>>>> On May 4, 2011, at 11:26 AM, Robin Axelsson<gu99roax at student.chalmers.se>  wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Perhaps you could inform me as to what flags I should use and I will do it.
>>>>>
>>>>> On 2011-05-04 19:28, Blake wrote:
>>>>>> Can you add debug flags to your grub boot command and then watch the system
>>>>>> boot without a keyboard?  You can then transcribe what you see on the
>>>>>> console into an gist and post a link to the gist.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 2:09 AM, Robin Axelsson<gu99roax at student.chalmers.se
>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>> I have posted earlier on how the system freezes at boot when there is no
>>>>>>> keyboard connected to the system. This was on OI_148. Then Ken Mays
>>>>>>> suggested that I should update to OI_148b from the devil repository. After
>>>>>>> the update I could boot the system without a keyboard but now the very same
>>>>>>> problem is back.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Robin.
>>>>>>>
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