From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 6 17:39:23 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hotmail.com (f291.law7.hotmail.com [216.33.236.169]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7CCD637BEB7 for ; Mon, 6 Mar 2000 17:39:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jmd526@hotmail.com) Received: (qmail 84221 invoked by uid 0); 7 Mar 2000 01:39:15 -0000 Message-ID: <20000307013915.84220.qmail@hotmail.com> Received: from 209.220.228.2 by www.hotmail.com with HTTP; Mon, 06 Mar 2000 17:39:15 PST X-Originating-IP: [209.220.228.2] From: "John Daniels" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Initial Boot Failure, possible unsupported hardware? Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2000 20:39:15 EST Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi: I had a similar problem with a USB keyboard. To get around the boot loader, you can try the following: 1. As soon as you see the Keyboard: no" message, hit the space bar. 2. You will then get a "boot:" prompt. Type "-Dh" (no parenthesis, of course) at that prompt. In my case, after I got by this hurdle with the boot loader (which is only preparing the system for booting the OS), I had another problem after the FreeBSD operating system booted. I found that my system, which had a USB keyboard and mouse, also had some hidden PS/2 ports. FreeBSD does not support USB "out-of-the-box" and was, I believe, looking for keyboard input from the PS/2 ports. Ultimately, I had to purchase a PS/2 keyboard and mouse. I have an Acer Aspire 1640. If you like, you can read more about my problem and conclusions at the freebsd-current.freebsd.org mailing list (just posted today). John ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message