Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 14:04:48 -0700 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> To: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> Cc: Johan Larsson <johan@ludd.luth.se> Subject: Re: Installing on a machine with no PS/2 ports (USB only) Message-ID: <20041028210448.GC2411@odin.ac.hmc.edu> In-Reply-To: <418138D0.6090304@marcuscom.com> References: <1098850867.51833.14.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <1098862658.1062.3.camel@localhost> <20041027110528.T91011@treo.operax.com> <20041028123001.GF8588@odin.ac.hmc.edu> <418138D0.6090304@marcuscom.com>
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--69pVuxX8awAiJ7fD Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Oct 28, 2004 at 02:22:08PM -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 >=20 > Brooks Davis wrote: > | On Wed, Oct 27, 2004 at 11:06:04AM +0200, Johan Larsson wrote: > | > |>Hello! > |> > |>On Wed, 27 Oct 2004, Vladimir Grebenschikov wrote: > |> > |> > |>>? ??, 27/10/2004 ? 00:21 -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke ?????: > |>> > |>>>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 b= oot > |>>>prompt. However, once I'm in sysinstall, I'm out of luck. > |>>> > |>>>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 > |>> OK set hint.sio.0.flags=3D"0x10" > |>> OK boot -h > |>> or like > |>> ) > |>> > |> > |>We installed RC1 on a GX280 recently, and the only thing we had to do to > |>get the usb keyboard working was to set the following in the loader: > |> > |>set hint.atkbd.0.flags=3D"0x1" > |> > |>And to make it resident, put it in the /boot/device.hints after the > |>installation. > | > | > | This is supposed to be being set on the release CDs. The test CD I > | posted links to uses nearly the same code I committed. I'm going > | to have to see if I can tear an ISO apart to verify what's on it. > | Unfortunately, my hotel has a 150MB cap (f-ing ridiculous for 29 Euros). >=20 > Did your changes make it into 5.3-RC1? Yes, they should have made it in to BETA 3 or 4, I can't remember which. -- Brooks --=20 Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 --69pVuxX8awAiJ7fD Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBgV7uXY6L6fI4GtQRAnq/AKDA9IIt1kj/XffKodEz5QFv2iDWSgCggSRd hiYCxspJy9DfjuhCUuEVM/w= =qW1N -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --69pVuxX8awAiJ7fD--
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