On 20/09/2011, at 10:05, Garrett Cooper wrote: > On Sep 19, 2011, at 4:39 PM, Pegasus Mc Cleaft wrote: > >> On Monday 19 September 2011 20:20:18 Alisson wrote: >> >>> if the machine doesn't have a PS2 port to use keyboard... and have only USB >>> port its impossible to use an keyboard on mountroot prompt >> >> Hi Alisson, >> >> I dont know the complete ins and outs of this, but I think it has a lot >> to do with the BIOS on your machine and/or how it is configured (IE: PS2 >> emulation). > > Many BIOS vendors label this as "legacy keyboard emulation", etc. You > might want to play with the plug-n-play settings as well (but I doubt that > that would help).
I think you would need "legacy emulation" for the keyboard to work in the loader. However that will have no effect at mountroot (and after) as the kernel has taken over by then. The kern.cam.boot_delay=10000 work around helps by giving the USB stack some time to find devices before mountroot. Unfortunately I believe the USB stack is effectively frozen once the mountroot prompt appears hence the need for the work around. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C _______________________________________________ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
