From owner-freebsd-usb@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 11 20:24:29 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-usb@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 07C0C1065672 for ; Tue, 11 Nov 2008 20:24:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jdc@koitsu.dyndns.org) Received: from QMTA09.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net (qmta09.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net [76.96.62.96]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA1EA8FC25 for ; Tue, 11 Nov 2008 20:24:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jdc@koitsu.dyndns.org) Received: from OMTA11.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.62.36]) by QMTA09.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net with comcast id dn6Q1a00B0mv7h059wQTcq; Tue, 11 Nov 2008 20:24:27 +0000 Received: from koitsu.dyndns.org ([69.181.141.110]) by OMTA11.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net with comcast id dwQR1a00C2P6wsM3XwQR3C; Tue, 11 Nov 2008 20:24:27 +0000 X-Authority-Analysis: v=1.0 c=1 a=ux2eErHcXjUA:10 a=6I5d2MoRAAAA:8 a=QycZ5dHgAAAA:8 a=EhV_xG62G5wHDkLL7u4A:9 a=W_ovRdUTjs7m23KX8My7FA9f9c4A:4 a=EoioJ0NPDVgA:10 a=LY0hPdMaydYA:10 Received: by icarus.home.lan (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 563A45C1A; Tue, 11 Nov 2008 12:24:25 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2008 12:24:25 -0800 From: Jeremy Chadwick To: Volker Message-ID: <20081111202425.GA6568@icarus.home.lan> References: <4912E462.4090608@icyb.net.ua> <491586B9.2020303@vwsoft.com> <4919851B.7050800@icyb.net.ua> <4919E65C.1020307@vwsoft.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4919E65C.1020307@vwsoft.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Cc: freebsd-usb@freebsd.org, FreeBSD Stable , Andriy Gapon , Peter Wemm Subject: Re: usb keyboard dying at loader prompt X-BeenThere: freebsd-usb@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD support for USB List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2008 20:24:29 -0000 On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 09:09:00PM +0100, Volker wrote: > On 11/11/08 19:55, Peter Wemm wrote: > > ... > > * There were other consequences of using the partition ID hack - I > > think I remember it turning off the apic for msdos mode. > > > > Your problems may be different, but mine were caused by a BIOS > > whitelist of MBR partition id's. What a stupid problem. On that > > motherboard I ended up taking the path of least resistance and using > > the PS/2 adapter plug on the keyboard. > > Peter, > > very interesting what you've found. That reminds me on some > investigations I did as I was hunting USB boot device problems. > > Some BIOSes do not check the partition (slice) ID but are looking for a > file system magic. If a FAT filesystem is detected, the BIOS does some > stupid things (like ignoring the active partition flag and booting the > FAT slice no matter what you've flagged active). Just an example and > off-topic to Andriy's keyboard problem. > > But when combining that with your findings, it may still be a thing to > check for... ;) Since you folks in this thread have some pretty good experience with BIOS behaviour and bootloader/filesystem stuff, could I ask that someone take a look at something I posted at over on -fs? I'm out of ideas at this point. http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-fs/2008-November/005317.html Danke! -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB |