Also, usb keyboard/mouse start at boot using a `boot protocol', IIRC, they look to software as older keyboard/mouse as long as you don't touch the usb bus. One way to go would be to remove usb code during install, but I didn't try this as don't know if it will work on your machine.
On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 4:45 PM, erik quanstrom<quans...@quanstro.net> wrote: >> Hi everyone, >> >> I previously sent in a post, but I think it was completely overlooked due to >> the heated discussions at the time. I have previously corresponded with >> Russ Cox and Eric re: the problems I am having getting a plan9 boot on the >> mac-minis that I am using. >> >> Has anyone successfully installed plan9 using only USB input devices >> (keyboard/mouse)? I have no serial ports on all of my machines. Any >> pointers any of you could suggest is greatly appreciated. >> >> Thanks for your time, >> AJ Sherbondy > > assuming that usb is your only problem, there's one > obvious but solvable problem. the install cd's 9load > needs kbd input to boot. this could be solved by > adding a menu timeout to the bootflop plan9.ini. > > there are probablly other problems that aren't so > obvious. but fixing this (which you can do without > a running plan 9 installation) would probablly get you far. > > - erik > >
