Re: Installing on a machine with no PS/2 ports (USB only)

From: Vladimir Grebenschikov <vova_at_fbsd.ru>
Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 11:37:38 +0400
В ср, 27/10/2004 в 00:21 -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke пишет:
> The more I look into this, the more it looks like I'm screwed.  I'm
> trying to install FreeBSD 5.3-RC1 from CD on a machine without any PS/2
> ports.  All I have is a USB keyboard.  Yes, the BIOS has legacy USB
> support enabled, and the keyboard works to hit enter at the initial boot
> prompt.  However, once I'm in sysinstall, I'm out of luck.
> 
> I tried disconnecting the keyboard at boot time to see if I could get a
> serial console to do the installation, but that didn't work.  The
> console was still detected as internal video.  Any ideas on how I can
> get FreeBSD on this machine (Dell OptiPlex GX280)?  Thanks.

Yes, instruct kernel to put console on serial from loader prompt
( I guess something like   
   OK set hint.sio.0.flags="0x10"
   OK boot -h
  or like
 )

> Joe
> 
-- 
Vladimir B. Grebenchikov
vova_at_fbsd.ru
Received on Wed Oct 27 2004 - 05:37:40 UTC

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