mouse in serial corrupts boot loaders

Michael Powell nightrecon at hotmail.com
Fri Mar 10 11:19:58 PST 2006


Jeremy C. Reed wrote:

> 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)"
> 
[snip]
> 
> Unplugging mouse and typing "boot" does work.
> 
>  Jeremy C. Reed
> 
> echo 'I7 at 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






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