i386/108828: Can not install 6.2-release on a USB keyboard system

[Bakul Shah]

>Number:         108828
>Category:       i386
>Synopsis:       Can not install 6.2-release on a USB keyboard system
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       critical
>Priority:       high
>Responsible:    freebsd-i386
>State:          open
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>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Tue Feb 06 07:10:29 GMT 2007
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>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Bakul Shah
>Release:        6.2
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>Description:
On a Dell Dimension 9200 system there is no ps2 keyboard.  The bios has legacy support so its usb attached keyboard works until freebsd boots.  Using this, I escaped to the loader prompt and added

set hint.atkbd.0.flags="0x1"

This is what a 5.5 installer does when you choose "Boot FreeBSD with USB keyboard" but the usb keyboard is not recognized.  On a different system I checked that usb keyboard support is compiled in the kernel so it appears this is a bug....
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