From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 10 20:15:06 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8213916A4CE for ; Fri, 10 Sep 2004 20:15:06 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mproxy.gmail.com (rproxy.gmail.com [64.233.170.199]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 12D3C43D1F for ; Fri, 10 Sep 2004 20:15:06 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dwaquilina@gmail.com) Received: by mproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 74so593222rnl for ; Fri, 10 Sep 2004 13:14:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.38.22.67 with SMTP id 67mr2178277rnv; Fri, 10 Sep 2004 13:14:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.38.86.64 with HTTP; Fri, 10 Sep 2004 13:14:53 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2004 16:14:53 -0400 From: David Aquilina To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Installing on AMD64 without PS/2 keyboard X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: David Aquilina List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2004 20:15:06 -0000 Greetings all, I'm trying to install FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE and/or the latest 5.3-BETA on an AMD64 box I have (both releases exhibit the same behavior). I am running into a fairly serious problem, however - the system does not have any PS/2 ports, only USB. FreeBSD sees a phantom keyboard on kbd0 when the USB keyboard is plugged in, and the real keyboard on kbd1. Sysinstall only uses kbd0, however. To add insult, the keyboard works just fine in the loader, however as soon as the kernel starts loading the keyboard is ignored. I've tried mucking with the BIOS's USB Legacy Keyboard option, but it doesn't alter FreeBSD's behavior any. I've also tried using device hints to disable atkbd.0 and atkbdc.0, however they also seem to be ignored. In desperation, I set up a serial console to try and run the installer that way. The system boots, however nothing happens after this point: md0: Preloaded image 4194304 bytes at 0xffffffff808e4ba0 ad0: 78533MB [159560/16/63] at ata0-master UDMA100 ATAPI_RESET time = 50us acd0: CDRW at ata1-master UDMA33 Mounting root from ufs:/dev/md0 Any help would be greatly appreciated. -- David Aquilina dwaquilina@gmail.com