Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 11:37:38 +0400 From: Vladimir Grebenschikov <vova@fbsd.ru> To: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> Cc: "current@freebsd.org" <current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Installing on a machine with no PS/2 ports (USB only) Message-ID: <1098862658.1062.3.camel@localhost> In-Reply-To: <1098850867.51833.14.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> References: <1098850867.51833.14.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>
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=F7 =D3=D2, 27/10/2004 =D7 00:21 -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke =D0=C9=DB=C5=D4: > 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. >=20 > 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 =20 OK set hint.sio.0.flags=3D"0x10" OK boot -h or like ) > Joe >=20 --=20 Vladimir B. Grebenchikov vova@fbsd.ru
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