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From: ish rattan <ishwar@pali.cps.cmich.edu>
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This a test of post.
- ishwar

genkai wa doko da wrote:

>  ok just messing around with bochs and after pressing = and waiting for
> the kernel to load when I go to mount /dev/fd0c every keypress produces
> an '^@' but then suddenly after a few dozen keypresses the characters I
> am typing in appear like this :
>
>    /dev/^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@fd0c
>
> and the mount fails.
> mounting from the single user shell doesn't help after I ctrl-d and run
> setup it still does the same thing.
>
> any ideas? the only thing I could think of changing was the
> keyboard_serial_delay but it doesn't help at all.
>
> the only thing I see in the log that could be related at all is:
> 181927144 floppy: DMA and interrupt capabilities disabled
> 183426161 floppy: DMA and interrupt capabilities disabled
> repeated a few hundred times.
>
> I am using virtual disks so it isn't a hardware issue I guess...
>
> I know this isn't the bochs help forum but maybe someone has an idea...
>
> gauze
>
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