USB keyboard in FreeBSD 10 amd64 installer

[Mehmet Erol Sanliturk]

On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 12:10 PM, Christian Campbell <dcamp at alumni.ufl.edu>wrote:

> Have you tried waiting to plug the keyboard in until the first moment you
> need to use it?
>
> Also, you might look into modifying your installation media to perform a
> scripted, i.e. non-interactive, install.
>
> Christian
>
>
> On Tuesday, 8 April 2014, Joshua Lokken <jrlokken at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Oh, and to answer your question, AMD Phenom II x710 3-core.
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 8:14 AM, Joshua Lokken <jrlokken at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > I did verify that the system was 64-bit, and running a 64-bit OS now.
>> >
>> >
>> > On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 12:41 AM, Mehmet Erol Sanliturk <
>> > m.e.sanliturk at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 12:23 AM, Joshua Lokken <jrlokken at gmail.com
>> >wrote:
>> >>
>> >>> Tried again with PS/2, hit Enter, then just waited.  Eventually, the
>> boot
>> >>> started, got a few lines into the ACPI stuff, then hung.  Looks like
>> no
>> >>> FreeBSD 10 amd64 on this box :(  I needed to upgrade, anyway...
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 9:07 PM, Joshua Lokken <jrlokken at gmail.com>
>> >>> wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>> > I've have tried about everything possible at this point:
>> >>> >
>> >>> > I use onboard audio, so no -- nVidia chipset for the NIC, audio and
>> >>> USB,
>> >>> > all are ON.  USB works just great, until the installer screen loads
>> --
>> >>> all
>> >>> > I can do consistently is Ctrl-Alt-Del to reboot, no other keypresses
>> >>> > generate any signal.
>> >>> >
>> >>> > In fact, I just tried with a PS/2 keyboard, and I've used those with
>> >>> > FreeBSD forever, and _never_ had a problem.  Same behavior in this
>> >>> case, no
>> >>> > keypresses work except for Ctrl-Alt-Del.
>> >>> >
>> >>> > I've cleared the CMOS and meticulously gone through every setting,
>> >>> nothing
>> >>> > I've found works so far.
>> >>> >
>> >>> > I just dl'ed the i386 iso, just to test, but I've run out of blank
>> >>> media
>> >>> > for the immediate time being, so I'll have another go at it
>> tomorrow.
>> >>> >
>> >>> > Does anyone know of any way to get past this installer screen
>> without a
>> >>> > working keyboard?  Or is there another installation method I could
>> >>> > attempt?  Thanks again.
>> >>> >
>> >>> >
>> >>> > Joshua
>> >>> >
>> >>> >
>> >>> > On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 8:44 PM, Matt Bettinger <iamatt at gmail.com>
>> >>> wrote:
>> >>> >
>> >>> >> Did you disable audio in the bios?  On an Intel mini atx system I
>> have
>> >>> >> the onboard nic and  USB would not work with audio device disabled,
>> >>> yeah.
>> >>> >> On Apr 7, 2014 9:53 PM, "Erich Dollansky" <
>> >>> erichsfreebsdlist at alogt.com>
>> >>> >> wrote:
>> >>> >>
>> >>> >>> Hi,
>> >>> >>>
>> >>> >>> On Mon, 7 Apr 2014 19:43:06 -0700
>> >>> >>> Joshua Lokken <jrlokken at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >>> >>>
>> >>> >>> > There are 3 USB-related BIOS options, basically:
>> >>> >>> >
>> >>> >>> > USB On/Off
>> >>> >>> > Legacy USB On/Off
>> >>> >>> > USB Mass Storage On/Off
>> >>> >>> >
>> >>> >>> > I tried with Legacy USB both on and off, same results.  I
>> checked
>> >>> the
>> >>> >>> > mobo manual, and all ports are USB 2.0/1.1, no BIOS updates
>> >>> available.
>> >>> >>> >
>> >>> >>> Some keyboards need the legacy stuff. As all your ports are USB
>> 2, it
>> >>> >>> has to work.
>> >>> >>>
>> >>> >>> Erich
>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________
>> >>> >>> freebsd-questions at freebsd.org mailing list
>> >>> >>> <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions>
>
>
>
> --
>
> Christian
>
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>



One more point to check may be memory chips .

I have encountered such a case :


In a computer Windows XP was running successfully .
When I tried a FreeBSD or Linux , no one of them worked properly ( they
were crashing unexpectedly ) . My opinion was that there were
incompatibilities between FreeBSD or Linux and its mainboard which was a
correct expectation .

Later on , even Windows XP started to crash .

The reason was a progressive memory chip defect .

Different operating systems may use different memory parts . One of them
may fail but others may work .

In such cases verifying correct functioning of memory chips may be useful .

Even other computer parts may cause such problems because of order of using
parts or not using all of the parts or using different parts .



Thank you very much .

Mehmet Erol Sanliturk