Installing on a machine with no PS/2 ports (USB only)

Brooks Davis brooks at one-eyed-alien.net
Thu Oct 28 14:04:28 PDT 2004


On Thu, Oct 28, 2004 at 02:22:08PM -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
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> Brooks Davis wrote:
> | On Wed, Oct 27, 2004 at 11:06:04AM +0200, Johan Larsson wrote:
> |
> |>Hello!
> |>
> |>On Wed, 27 Oct 2004, Vladimir Grebenschikov wrote:
> |>
> |>
> |>>? ??, 27/10/2004 ? 00:21 -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke ?????:
> |>>
> |>>>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
> |>> )
> |>>
> |>
> |>We installed RC1 on a GX280 recently, and the only thing we had to do to
> |>get the usb keyboard working was to set the following in the loader:
> |>
> |>set hint.atkbd.0.flags="0x1"
> |>
> |>And to make it resident, put it in the /boot/device.hints after the
> |>installation.
> |
> |
> | This is supposed to be being set on the release CDs.  The test CD I
> | posted links to uses nearly the same code I committed.  I'm going
> | to have to see if I can tear an ISO apart to verify what's on it.
> | Unfortunately, my hotel has a 150MB cap (f-ing ridiculous for 29 Euros).
> 
> Did your changes make it into 5.3-RC1?

Yes, they should have made it in to BETA 3 or 4, I can't remember which.

-- Brooks

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