Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2014 09:13:17 -0700 From: Daniel <nefar@otherware.org> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: USB keyboard not recognized during boot Message-ID: <CAK0G6cnD2-rbFdeoNmyU78TTXGiDL5cMz3hMaJNZ8ajW-d884w@mail.gmail.com>
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> > > On Mon, Oct 06, 2014 at 13:59:12 -0700, Daniel wrote: > > My problem stems from not being able to use my keyboard during the geli > > password prompt for the encrypted root drive. > > > > > I have a Supermicro X10SAE, also using GELI-encrypted root ZFS. > I have found that, comical as it may seem, mashing the keyboard > during the system's initial device probing allows me to hit enter > at the password prompt (which gets printed in between some of the > USB device probes) and then enter the password properly. I'm > running on: > > FreeBSD behemoth 10.1-RC1 FreeBSD 10.1-RC1 #0 r272473: Fri Oct 3 14:56:28 > UTC 2014 root@behemoth:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 > > Hi Chris, thank you so much for your response. It prompted me to try again. Your suggestion failed but I revisited the BIOS settings in the hope that something would work. I found a setting called "Port 60/64 Emulation which when disabled allowed me to enter the password for encryption. (Woo-hoo!) The description in the BIOS for this setting is: "Enables I/O Port 60h/64h emulation support" I also noticed that when I do a system halt, there is a prompt to press keyboard to reboot. That also didn't work with the way things work. So, it seems to me there's a fix related to this Port 60/64 that could be done on the OS side of things.
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