Installing on a machine with no PS/2 ports (USB only)
Vladimir Grebenschikov
vova at fbsd.ru
Wed Oct 27 00:37:40 PDT 2004
В ср, 27/10/2004 в 00:21 -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke пишет:
> The more I look into this, the more it looks like I'm screwed. I'm
> trying to install FreeBSD 5.3-RC1 from CD on a machine without any PS/2
> ports. All I have is a USB keyboard. Yes, the BIOS has legacy USB
> support enabled, and the keyboard works to hit enter at the initial boot
> prompt. However, once I'm in sysinstall, I'm out of luck.
>
> I tried disconnecting the keyboard at boot time to see if I could get a
> serial console to do the installation, but that didn't work. The
> console was still detected as internal video. Any ideas on how I can
> get FreeBSD on this machine (Dell OptiPlex GX280)? Thanks.
Yes, instruct kernel to put console on serial from loader prompt
( I guess something like
OK set hint.sio.0.flags="0x10"
OK boot -h
or like
)
> Joe
>
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Vladimir B. Grebenchikov
vova at fbsd.ru
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