Bill Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On some Dells, there is a BIOS option to boot with "USB legacy support" > (or some similar wording) or without USB support at all. Having the > correct setting is pivotal to getting the USB keyboard to work. The > correct setting varies from model to model. What fun.
I didn't see any option like this on my Dimension 9150. :-( > Additionally, sometimes escaping the boot loader and setting > hint.atkbd.0.flags="0x1" is still required on some hardware (even with > 6.1). I'll look into this. > That might be faster ... get a FreeSBIE disk. Tried this, very nice LiveCD. But I couldn't figure out how to get it to see and then mount my SATA disk partition so I could fix its /etc/fstab. Perhaps I missed something, but the /scripts/mount_disks.sh didn't seem to find the hard drives. Alex Zbyslaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The FreeBSD installation CD will also do just fine with fixit shell. > Any CD from 5.X onwards should mount UFS2 partitions even if you are > running some later OS version. Given your USB trouble, a 5.X CD might > even be preferred since it has the boot option you want. Since I couldn't figure out how to get FreeSBIE to mount the hard drives, I started downloading the FreeBSD-6.1 install CDs. While waiting, I got the dead box to boot over the net from my main box (which boots a small diskless box I run in the kitchen). That at least brought it up to the point where I could ssh into the box then fix the /etc/fstab. Kinda round-about but it worked. :-) Erik Nørgaard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The keyboard usually works on the boot menu as the bios is in control. > So, exit the menu to load the kernel modules you need, usb, ukbd and > uhid I think should do. Then boot into single user mode. I tried this, but when it started to boot it said the modules were already installed and then hung at the point where it sees "atkbdc0". > For next time, this happens, I suggest you build a kernel with usb > keyboard support built in. I think the GENERIC kernel now supports usb > keyboards by default, which explains why the boot option has been removed. I'll check to make sure my custom kernel has this. Thanks to everyone for your help. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
