mouse in serial corrupts boot loaders

[Francis Gudin]

On 10-03-2006, Jeremy C. Reed <reed at xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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
> 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.

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.