Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2006 16:15:33 +0000 From: "Joao Barros" <joao.barros@gmail.com> To: "Kenyon Ralph" <kralph@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installing FreeBSD with undetected USB keyboard Message-ID: <70e8236f0603200815j3aef2396idc17de8b3fa7e27f@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <13d4d6bb0603192356k2e71002ak5c649fab6d14e106@mail.gmail.com> References: <13d4d6bb0603192304g4708be6dy602628f0566a492c@mail.gmail.com> <op.s6pb91dbblu3bc@p4-3200> <13d4d6bb0603192356k2e71002ak5c649fab6d14e106@mail.gmail.com>
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On 3/20/06, Kenyon Ralph <kralph@gmail.com> wrote: > On 3/19/06, Andreas Rudisch <cyb.@gmx.net> wrote: > > On Mon, 20 Mar 2006 08:04:01 +0100, Kenyon Ralph <kralph@gmail.com> wro= te: > > > > > I have a USB Microsoft Natural Keyboard connected to an Intel > > > SE440BX-2 motherboard. The keyboard works fine in the BIOS setup and > > > in Linux booted from a CD. Booting with a > > > 6.0-RELEASE-i386-bootonly.iso CD gives me no keyboard functionality a= t > > > all. > > > > Have you tried option 7 'Boot FreeBSD with USB keyboard' of the boot me= nu > > yet? > > Kind of difficult since I can't use the keyboard. :) > When you have "USB Legacy support" enabled in the BIOS you should still have a working keyboard up till the loader stage. With that you should be able to select option 7 'Boot FreeBSD with USB keyboard' of the boot menu as mentioned. You should also be able to go to loader options and do a "load kbdmux" and boot afterwards. Note this option only works on 6.1 BETA and there are ISOs to download :) -- Joao Barros
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