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

From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus_at_marcuscom.com>
Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 14:22:08 -0400
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Brooks Davis wrote:
| 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.
|
|
| This is supposed to be being set on the release CDs.  The test CD I
| posted links to uses nearly the same code I committed.  I'm going
| to have to see if I can tear an ISO apart to verify what's on it.
| Unfortunately, my hotel has a 150MB cap (f-ing ridiculous for 29 Euros).

Did your changes make it into 5.3-RC1?

Joe

|
| -- Brooks
|


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