From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 27 09:06:08 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 739A216A4CE for ; Wed, 27 Oct 2004 09:06:08 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp.operax.com (aurorum-86.operax.com [213.88.249.86]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id AF75643D2D for ; Wed, 27 Oct 2004 09:06:06 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from johan@ludd.luth.se) Received: (qmail 14803 invoked by uid 0); 27 Oct 2004 09:06:04 -0000 Received: from treo.operax.com (192.168.1.2) by treo.operax.com with SMTP; 27 Oct 2004 09:06:04 -0000 Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 11:06:04 +0200 (CEST) From: Johan Larsson X-X-Sender: johan@treo.operax.com To: Vladimir Grebenschikov In-Reply-To: <1098862658.1062.3.camel@localhost> Message-ID: <20041027110528.T91011@treo.operax.com> References: <1098850867.51833.14.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <1098862658.1062.3.camel@localhost> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Mailman-Approved-At: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 12:02:12 +0000 cc: "current@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: Installing on a machine with no PS/2 ports (USB only) X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 09:06:08 -0000 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