FW: USB Keyboard and FreeBSD BootMGR

[Paredes Sánchez Martín A.]

I have been reading info about the loader, it says it cat load modules,
I don't know if the deamon of the keyboard is a module, and if thera can
be a modification of the scripts of the loader.

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	-----Original Message-----
	From:	Paul Forrester [SMTP:paforres at cisco.com]
	Sent:	Wednesday, April 16, 2003 8:39 AM
	To:	questions at freebsd.org
	Subject:	Re: USB Keyboard and FreeBSD BootMGR

	I have the same problem as Mark.  I've tried enabling USB at the
BIOS 
	level and that allows me to use the keyboard to navigate the
BIOS 
	screens, but as soon as the BootMGR loads, the USB gets switched
off.  
	I manage several servers in a cross platform environment and USB
is the 
	only 'common' denominator for keyboards.  Right now I keep a
separate 
	keyboard around just for that period when the BootMGR is running
for 
	those rare instances when I need to stop the boot, change the
kernel, 
	boot into single user, etc...  It seems like others must have
bumped up 
	against this problem and solved it in a more elegant fashion
than I.  
	How about it?  Is there a software only workaround?

	Thanks and regards,
	Paul Forrester

	Begin forwarded message:

	> Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2003 06:51:20 +0000
	> From: "Timothy R. Simmons" <tsimmons77 at comcast.net>
	> Subject: Re: USB Keyboard and FreeBSD BootMGR
	> To: Mark Jacobs <mark.jacobs at custserv.com>,
questions at freebsd.org
	> Message-ID: <200304160651.20634.tsimmons77 at comcast.net>
	> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
	>
	> Enabling USB Keyboard support in BIOS may be your answer here.
	> That should let the keyboard be usuable until the USB daemon
can take 
	> control.
	>
	> On Wednesday 16 April 2003 01:54 pm, Mark Jacobs wrote:
	>> This may be a catch-22 situtation but, how does one select
which 
	>> operating
	>> system to boot from using a usb keyboard since it doesn't
seem to do
	>> anything until an operating system is booted and support for
usb 
	>> devices
	>> loaded.
	>>
	>> TIA,
	>>
	>> Mark Jacobs
	>>
	>>
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