From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 27 13:49:07 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 4422F16A4CE for ; Wed, 27 Oct 2004 13:49:07 +0000 (GMT) Received: from dart.sr.se (dart.SR.SE [134.25.0.132]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 66B6143D2D for ; Wed, 27 Oct 2004 13:49:06 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from flygt@sr.se) Received: from honken.sr.se (honken.sr.se [134.25.128.27]) by dart.sr.se (8.12.9p2/8.12.8) with ESMTP id i9RDn5jx049897; Wed, 27 Oct 2004 15:49:05 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from flygt@sr.se) Received: from oldie.sr.se (oldie [134.25.200.100]) by honken.sr.se (8.12.8p2/8.12.8) with ESMTP id i9RDn4O1051506; Wed, 27 Oct 2004 15:49:04 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from flygt@sr.se) Received: from oldie.sr.se (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by oldie.sr.se (8.13.1/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i9RDmxh7030217; Wed, 27 Oct 2004 15:48:59 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from flygt@sr.se) Received: (from gunnar@localhost) by oldie.sr.se (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id i9RDmx8Z030216; Wed, 27 Oct 2004 15:48:59 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from gunnar) Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 15:48:59 +0200 From: Gunnar Flygt To: Johan Larsson Message-ID: <20041027134859.GB25127@sr.se> References: <1098850867.51833.14.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <1098862658.1062.3.camel@localhost> <20041027110528.T91011@treo.operax.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20041027110528.T91011@treo.operax.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i 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 Reply-To: Gunnar Flygt 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 13:49:07 -0000 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