usb/144280: boot0cfg not USB aware

Garrett Cooper yanefbsd at gmail.com
Sun Mar 7 10:09:42 UTC 2010


On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 9:10 PM, Fbsd1 <fbsd1 at a1poweruser.com> wrote:
> The following reply was made to PR kern/144280; it has been noted by GNATS.
>
> From: Fbsd1 <fbsd1 at a1poweruser.com>
> To: Hans Petter Selasky <hselasky at c2i.net>
> Cc: freebsd-usb at freebsd.org, linimon at freebsd.org,
>  freebsd-gnats-submit at freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: usb/144280: boot0cfg not USB aware
> Date: Sun, 07 Mar 2010 13:08:39 +0800
>
>  Hans Petter Selasky wrote:
>  > On Thursday 25 February 2010 09:29:14 Joe Barbish wrote:
>  >>> Number:         144280
>  >>> Category:       usb
>  >>> Synopsis:       boot0cfg not USB aware
>  >>> Confidential:   no
>  >>> Severity:       non-critical
>  >>> Priority:       low
>  >>> Responsible:    freebsd-usb
>  >>> State:          open
>  >>> Quarter:
>  >>> Keywords:
>  >>> Date-Required:
>  >>> Class:          sw-bug
>  >>> Submitter-Id:   current-users
>  >>> Arrival-Date:   Thu Feb 25 08:30:08 UTC 2010
>  >>> Closed-Date:
>  >>> Last-Modified:
>  >>> Originator:     Joe Barbish
>  >>> Release:        8.0 release
>  >>> Organization:
>  >> none
>  >>
>  >>> Environment:
>  >>> Description:
>  >> Have boot0cfg installed on PC motherboard cabled hard drive and when I plug
>  >>  in an USB cabled external hard drive or USB flash drive, (both containing
>  >>  a installed full FreeBSD version) and boot the PC, the f5 key for going to
>  >>  the second hard drive is non-functional. Looks like boot0cfg is not USB
>  >>  aware.
>  >>
>  >
>  > This is not an USB issue, but rather BIOS / boot-code related. Please change
>  > responsible.
>  >
>  > --HPS
>  >
>  >
>  You have a very limited view point of what is USB problem. I don't see
>  it as a bios problem. For sure the problem is in the boot0cfg code and
>  for sure IT IS A USB PROBLEM. Now if you want to change this to am
>  different group then you are welcome to do so. But as the original
>  reporter of the PR I don't have the authority to make that change.

    Have you tried setting legacy keyboard emulation in your BIOS?
Thanks,
-Garrett


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