Bug #107
closed
mouse in serial corrupts boot loaders
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Description
I have a mouse plugged into my serial. (The mouse works with moused
and provides a working sysmouse for X11 on DragonFly.)
1) I rebooted and got:
DragonFly boot
0:ad(0,a)/boot/locader: (garbage characters here)
I pressed enter and it said "No (garbage)"
Pressing "?" gives file and directory list.
2) Booting from LiveCD
The "Welcome to DragonFly" menu didn't count down but kept flashing "10".
Then a three seconds later:
Hit [Enter] to boot immediately, or ...
then when to OK automatically.
Showed garbage
I could type commands, but no results, just came back to:
OK
OK
OK ?
OK
OK help
OK boot
OK
Notice extra spaces after OK above.
(I have seen two "bug tracking" webpages and this mailing list. If you
want me to report somewhere else, please let me know.)
Unplugging mouse and typing "boot" does work.
Jeremy C. Reedecho 'I7@87944:;6<754372=9=?48812=7043:>' | tr '0-@' 'wutrofn mlkige.ca'
Updated by nightrecon almost 19 years ago
Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
[snip]
Unplugging mouse and typing "boot" does work.
Jeremy C. Reed
echo 'I7@87944:;6<754372=9=?48812=7043:>' | tr '0-@' 'wutrofn mlkige.ca'
Try creating a /boot.config file with V in it. This fixed me up when I had)
this problem once upon a time. Might work, might not. :
-Mike
Updated by fgudin almost 19 years ago
On 10-03-2006, Jeremy C. Reed <reed@reedmedia.net> wrote:
I have a mouse plugged into my serial. (The mouse works with moused
and provides a working sysmouse for X11 on DragonFly.)
<snip>
Showed garbage
I could type commands, but no results, just came back to:
OK
OK
OK ?
OK
OK help
OK boot
OKNotice extra spaces after OK above.
(I have seen two "bug tracking" webpages and this mailing list. If you
want me to report somewhere else, please let me know.)Unplugging mouse and typing "boot" does work.
Hi,
this is intended behaviour (i.e. a feature, not a bug): cf. the FAQ list
on the Wiki, question 5.
Also, issue #107 on RoundUp could be closed.
Francis.