Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 15:48:59 +0200 From: Gunnar Flygt <flygt@sr.se> To: Johan Larsson <johan@ludd.luth.se> Cc: "current@freebsd.org" <current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Installing on a machine with no PS/2 ports (USB only) Message-ID: <20041027134859.GB25127@sr.se> In-Reply-To: <20041027110528.T91011@treo.operax.com> References: <1098850867.51833.14.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <1098862658.1062.3.camel@localhost> <20041027110528.T91011@treo.operax.com>
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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 -- Gunnar Flygt SR Datadrift Sveriges Radio
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