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Date:      Sun, 26 Mar 2006 19:41:36 +0200
From:      =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Erik_N=F8rgaard?= <norgaard@locolomo.org>
To:        Ian Lord <mailing-lists@msdi.ca>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Urgent Help needed: How to boot in single user mode with usb keyboard
Message-ID:  <4426D250.6070103@locolomo.org>
In-Reply-To: <7.0.0.16.2.20060326100607.04e9bca0@msdi.ca>
References:  <7.0.0.16.2.20060326100607.04e9bca0@msdi.ca>

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Ian Lord wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am currently in a maintenance window trying to rebuildworld...
> 
> I am doing it on a dell poweredge with a built in drac wich emulate a 
> usb keyboard...
> 
> When I need to boot on the drac, I need to use boot with usb keyboard in 
> the menu...
> 
> Now I need to boot in single mode WITH usb keyboard and I can't figure 
> out...
> 
> I saw in a post that I could do the following in boot loader:
> 
> set hint.atkbd.0.flags="0x1"
> boot -s

Is the kernel you boot built with support for usb keyboard? if not, I 
think you can do something like

load ukbd
boot -s

you may also need some other modules depending on your hardware.

Cheers, Erik
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