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- From: thomas@aeon.in-berlin.de (Thomas Wolfram)
- Subject: Re: OS-BS & Codrv (was:Re: Want info on German Boot Manager thingy please)
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- Organization: Cities in Dust
- References: <ricky.724300453@lindblat.cc.monash.edu.au> <6051@rosie.NeXT.COM> <veit.724405437@du9ds3> <veit.724415647@du9ds3>
- Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 00:54:35 GMT
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- In <veit.724415647@du9ds3> veit@du9ds3.fb9dv.uni-duisburg.de (Holger Veit) writes:
-
- >In <veit.724405437@du9ds3> veit@du9ds3.fb9dv.uni-duisburg.de (Holger Veit) writes:
-
- >Some addendum to a possible problem between the partition switcher OS-BS
- >mentioned above and my console driver CODRV:
-
- >(excerpt from BUGLIST.151292, only bug added since BUGLIST.011292):
-
- >-------
- >BUG 14: The old pccons worked. Codrv hangs after showing the Copyright
- > message. I use Thomas Wolfram's "os-bs" (osbs-132/134)
- > partition switcher.
-
- >FIX 14: os-bs is broken in that way that the keyboard character to be
- > entered is not correctly removed from the keyboard queue.
- > OS-BS does not use, for some unknown reasons, BIOS Interrupt 16h,
- > but fiddles with the keyboard controller itself. This causes a
- > release code to be left in the keyboard queue, when a selection
- > key is pressed. This code irriates the codrv attach routine and
- > causes 386bsd to hang. The problem (with a different effect) also
- > occurs with OS/2 2.0 with the first keyboard request.
-
- I know myself some installations with OS/2 and os-bs working fine.
-
- > Fix: This should be fixed in OS-BS, but it is unknown whether the
- > author is still available.
-
- I'm alive!!! (I don't read this group regulary.)
- But I'll try to fix it soon and make a new version 1.35.
-
- > The next version of codrv will address this problem for 386bsd.
- > Workarounds:
- > 1. Make 386bsd the default partition, and let it timeout.
- > The effect in other (DOS-type) OS versions is not so extreme
- > (mostly additional character at first keyboard access). The
- > effect on Linux or other UNIX versions is unknown.
-
- This is no problem for Linux, Interactive, OS/2, DOS. (I've reports.)
-
- [...]
-
- regards,
- Thomas
- --
- Thomas Wolfram, thomas@aeon.in-berlin.de
- EANTC, TU Berlin, wolf@prz.tu-berlin.de, +49 030 31421294
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