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

Hello!

On Wed, 27 Oct 2004, Vladimir Grebenschikov wrote:

> ? ??, 27/10/2004 ? 00:21 -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke ?????:
> > 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
>  )
>

We installed RC1 on a GX280 recently, and the only thing we had to do to
get the usb keyboard working was to set the following in the loader:

set hint.atkbd.0.flags="0x1"

And to make it resident, put it in the /boot/device.hints after the
installation.

  regards
  Johan