USB keyboard in FreeBSD 10 amd64 installer

[Christian Campbell]

Have you tried waiting to plug the keyboard in until the first moment you
need to use it?

Also, you might look into modifying your installation media to perform a
scripted, i.e. non-interactive, install.

Christian


On Tuesday, 8 April 2014, Joshua Lokken <jrlokken at gmail.com> wrote:

> Oh, and to answer your question, AMD Phenom II x710 3-core.
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 8:14 AM, Joshua Lokken <jrlokken at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I did verify that the system was 64-bit, and running a 64-bit OS now.
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 12:41 AM, Mehmet Erol Sanliturk <
> > m.e.sanliturk at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 12:23 AM, Joshua Lokken <jrlokken at gmail.com
> >wrote:
> >>
> >>> Tried again with PS/2, hit Enter, then just waited.  Eventually, the
> boot
> >>> started, got a few lines into the ACPI stuff, then hung.  Looks like no
> >>> FreeBSD 10 amd64 on this box :(  I needed to upgrade, anyway...
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 9:07 PM, Joshua Lokken <jrlokken at gmail.com>
> >>> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> > I've have tried about everything possible at this point:
> >>> >
> >>> > I use onboard audio, so no -- nVidia chipset for the NIC, audio and
> >>> USB,
> >>> > all are ON.  USB works just great, until the installer screen loads
> --
> >>> all
> >>> > I can do consistently is Ctrl-Alt-Del to reboot, no other keypresses
> >>> > generate any signal.
> >>> >
> >>> > In fact, I just tried with a PS/2 keyboard, and I've used those with
> >>> > FreeBSD forever, and _never_ had a problem.  Same behavior in this
> >>> case, no
> >>> > keypresses work except for Ctrl-Alt-Del.
> >>> >
> >>> > I've cleared the CMOS and meticulously gone through every setting,
> >>> nothing
> >>> > I've found works so far.
> >>> >
> >>> > I just dl'ed the i386 iso, just to test, but I've run out of blank
> >>> media
> >>> > for the immediate time being, so I'll have another go at it tomorrow.
> >>> >
> >>> > Does anyone know of any way to get past this installer screen
> without a
> >>> > working keyboard?  Or is there another installation method I could
> >>> > attempt?  Thanks again.
> >>> >
> >>> >
> >>> > Joshua
> >>> >
> >>> >
> >>> > On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 8:44 PM, Matt Bettinger <iamatt at gmail.com>
> >>> wrote:
> >>> >
> >>> >> Did you disable audio in the bios?  On an Intel mini atx system I
> have
> >>> >> the onboard nic and  USB would not work with audio device disabled,
> >>> yeah.
> >>> >> On Apr 7, 2014 9:53 PM, "Erich Dollansky" <
> >>> erichsfreebsdlist at alogt.com>
> >>> >> wrote:
> >>> >>
> >>> >>> Hi,
> >>> >>>
> >>> >>> On Mon, 7 Apr 2014 19:43:06 -0700
> >>> >>> Joshua Lokken <jrlokken at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>> >>>
> >>> >>> > There are 3 USB-related BIOS options, basically:
> >>> >>> >
> >>> >>> > USB On/Off
> >>> >>> > Legacy USB On/Off
> >>> >>> > USB Mass Storage On/Off
> >>> >>> >
> >>> >>> > I tried with Legacy USB both on and off, same results.  I checked
> >>> the
> >>> >>> > mobo manual, and all ports are USB 2.0/1.1, no BIOS updates
> >>> available.
> >>> >>> >
> >>> >>> Some keyboards need the legacy stuff. As all your ports are USB 2,
> it
> >>> >>> has to work.
> >>> >>>
> >>> >>> Erich
> >>> >>> _______________________________________________
> >>> >>> freebsd-questions at freebsd.org mailing list
> >>> >>> <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions>



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Christian

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