Installing FreeBSD with undetected USB keyboard

Kenyon Ralph kralph at gmail.com
Mon Mar 20 18:07:03 UTC 2006


On 3/20/06, Joao Barros <joao.barros at gmail.com> wrote:
> When you have "USB Legacy support" enabled in the BIOS you should
> still have a working keyboard up till the loader stage.
> With that you should be able to select option 7 'Boot FreeBSD with USB
> keyboard' of the boot menu as mentioned.
> You should also be able to go to loader options and do a "load kbdmux"
> and boot afterwards. Note this option only works on 6.1 BETA and there
> are ISOs  to download :)

I guess it *should* work like that.  Unfortunately it doesn't, no
matter what the BIOS setting is.  I'll make one attempt at modifying
the ISO.  If that doesn't work I'll just borrow a PS/2 kbd for the
installation.

Thanks.
Kenyon


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