From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 13 17:22:01 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0DDEA16A4DE for ; Thu, 13 Jul 2006 17:22:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chris@shenton.org) Received: from shenton.org (23.ebbed1.client.atlantech.net [209.190.235.35]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id EDFE143D45 for ; Thu, 13 Jul 2006 17:21:58 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from chris@shenton.org) Received: (qmail 736 invoked by uid 1001); 13 Jul 2006 17:21:52 -0000 From: Chris Shenton To: Bill Moran , Alex Zbyslaw , Erik =?iso-8859-1?Q?N=F8rgaard?= References: <86fyh6u73y.fsf@PECTOPAH.shenton.org> <20060712133956.52d14d93.wmoran@collaborativefusion.com> X-Face: Aezo$r(_w^[3*'"[, }4Ax-S47uhAT%v=t[mvO!E$T>07Viy^lm3YKL:o?18OK#zV@]G*51V ba.95S&l, JuWlG/pC$Z9p, , C2unO6R0:1#?q?xKqk)!$Pxy3w }?Ar!Dkq4D/#8VFgsT)2~YLR-C^i@^H&B+Pz5s^~!U8V<*5Z8'$\6#X`fAQP!5LSJ(C$ywocONE\yG VS6a}ZY1!@IC(rz}V|>IX; ,M\B7d$T?_>2ZZka#%Kz-]@R&{za{mw4K\Q[FS=NgNy1|!p6mDV1i:Z4 j&@6|IR$5t?+c?^ Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 13:21:51 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20060712133956.52d14d93.wmoran@collaborativefusion.com> (Bill Moran's message of "Wed, 12 Jul 2006 13:39:56 -0400") Message-ID: <86d5c9e7yo.fsf@Bacalao.shenton.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.110004 (No Gnus v0.4) Emacs/21.3 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Boot hangs at "/bin/sh?", can't see USB keyboard X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 17:22:01 -0000 Bill Moran writes: > On some Dells, there is a BIOS option to boot with "USB legacy support" > (or some similar wording) or without USB support at all. Having the > correct setting is pivotal to getting the USB keyboard to work. The > correct setting varies from model to model. What fun. I didn't see any option like this on my Dimension 9150. :-( > Additionally, sometimes escaping the boot loader and setting > hint.atkbd.0.flags=3D"0x1" is still required on some hardware (even with > 6.1). I'll look into this. > That might be faster ... get a FreeSBIE disk. Tried this, very nice LiveCD. But I couldn't figure out how to get it to see and then mount my SATA disk partition so I could fix its /etc/fstab. Perhaps I missed something, but the /scripts/mount_disks.sh didn't seem to find the hard drives. Alex Zbyslaw wrote: > The FreeBSD installation CD will also do just fine with fixit shell. > Any CD from 5.X onwards should mount UFS2 partitions even if you are > running some later OS version. Given your USB trouble, a 5.X CD might > even be preferred since it has the boot option you want. Since I couldn't figure out how to get FreeSBIE to mount the hard drives, I started downloading the FreeBSD-6.1 install CDs. While waiting, I got the dead box to boot over the net from my main box (which boots a small diskless box I run in the kitchen). That at least brought it up to the point where I could ssh into the box then fix the /etc/fstab. Kinda round-about but it worked. :-) Erik N=F8rgaard wrote: > The keyboard usually works on the boot menu as the bios is in control. > So, exit the menu to load the kernel modules you need, usb, ukbd and > uhid I think should do. Then boot into single user mode. I tried this, but when it started to boot it said the modules were already installed and then hung at the point where it sees "atkbdc0". > For next time, this happens, I suggest you build a kernel with usb > keyboard support built in. I think the GENERIC kernel now supports usb > keyboards by default, which explains why the boot option has been removed. I'll check to make sure my custom kernel has this. Thanks to everyone for your help.