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Subject: Re: USB Keyboard and FreeBSD BootMGR
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I have the same problem as Mark.  I've tried enabling USB at the BIOS 
level and that allows me to use the keyboard to navigate the BIOS 
screens, but as soon as the BootMGR loads, the USB gets switched off.  
I manage several servers in a cross platform environment and USB is the 
only 'common' denominator for keyboards.  Right now I keep a separate 
keyboard around just for that period when the BootMGR is running for 
those rare instances when I need to stop the boot, change the kernel, 
boot into single user, etc...  It seems like others must have bumped up 
against this problem and solved it in a more elegant fashion than I.  
How about it?  Is there a software only workaround?

Thanks and regards,
Paul Forrester

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> Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2003 06:51:20 +0000
> From: "Timothy R. Simmons" <tsimmons77@comcast.net>
> Subject: Re: USB Keyboard and FreeBSD BootMGR
> To: Mark Jacobs <mark.jacobs@custserv.com>, questions@freebsd.org
> Message-ID: <200304160651.20634.tsimmons77@comcast.net>
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> Enabling USB Keyboard support in BIOS may be your answer here.
> That should let the keyboard be usuable until the USB daemon can take 
> control.
>
> On Wednesday 16 April 2003 01:54 pm, Mark Jacobs wrote:
>> This may be a catch-22 situtation but, how does one select which 
>> operating
>> system to boot from using a usb keyboard since it doesn't seem to do
>> anything until an operating system is booted and support for usb 
>> devices
>> loaded.
>>
>> TIA,
>>
>> Mark Jacobs
>>
>>
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