usb keyboard dying at loader prompt

Andriy Gapon avg at icyb.net.ua
Mon Dec 8 07:06:07 PST 2008


[forwarded to the lists]

on 28/11/2008 15:48 Luigi Rizzo said the following:
> just as a test, can you check if /boot/loader from 6.2 (or sometime
> before jan.2008 - e.g. you could take one from a 6.3 CD) which you
> can also find at
> 
> http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/doc/20081128-freebsd-6.3-boot-loader
> 
> gives the same behaviour ?
> 
> I was seeing bugs related to the loader with pxeboot and
> the behaviour that you mention below sounds related.
> 
> It also sounds related to a problem that i a started having
> recently with an usb keyboard after i upgraded to 7.x ....
> in fact i am going to try this old loader myself!
> 
> let me know how the old loader works and if it fixes the
> problem i will relate the two issues and bring them up
> on the lists for discussion

Luigi,

thank you very much for this!
With your loader the things are much much better.
The keyboard doesn't die anymore at the loader prompt!


All in all, it seems that this is right direction.

-- 
Andriy Gapon



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