Date: Tue, 06 Jun 2006 07:45:09 -0400 From: Bryan Liesner <bryan@kishka.net> To: freebsd-usb@freebsd.org Subject: Dead USB keyboard problem and solution Message-ID: <44856AC5.6020003@kishka.net>
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I recently replaced my PS/2 keyboard with a USB keyboard. Works great, but with one exception. If the system is rebooted, it's easy enough to get into the BIOS settings, but after the boot process starts, the keyboard is dead until the kernel is loaded. So hitting the space bar to get to a loader prompt to boot kernel.old or perhaps putting in a boot -v was impossible. I poked around on the mailing lists and saw that some others were having the same issue, with no real answers. On a lark, I decided to try GRUB. Replacing the BSD boot blocks with GRUB resolved this issue for me. Now, when the system starts, I don't lose the keyboard and can hit the space bar when the loader starts to get to a prompt. This brings up an interesting question, probably for another list. What are the FreeBSD boot blocks doing (or not doing) that cause the loss of legacy USB support? -Bryan
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