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

On Thu, Oct 28, 2004 at 08:57:29PM -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-10-28 at 17:04, Brooks Davis wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 28, 2004 at 02:22:08PM -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
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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?
> > 
> > Yes, they should have made it in to BETA 3 or 4, I can't remember which.
> 
> Well, I can confirm that the mini-ISO for 5.3-RC1 did not have support
> for a USB keyboard.  As soon as I set atkbd.0.flags to 0x1 (thanks to
> Vladimir and Johan's suggestions), it worked flawlessly.

It appears the changes I committed were a no-op.  I'll try and figure
out what happened, but at four hours per run that's quite time
consuming.  I've added code to your patch to only display this menu on
i386 (amd64 thinks it's an i386 in the loader).

-- Brooks

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