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

On Wed, Oct 27, 2004 at 11:06:04AM +0200, Johan Larsson wrote:
> 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.

Actually you don't need it in the device.hints when everything is in
place. It is well detected and used on a running system (I tested both
5.2.1-RELEASE, 5.3-RC1 and 5.3-STABLE

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Gunnar Flygt
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