On Wed, Feb 03, 2010 at 08:47:56PM +1100, Peter Jeremy wrote: > [Based on a thread in -stable] > > I am trying to upgrade a Dell GX620 from FreeBSD 7.1 to a recent > FreeBSD 8-stable and have run into a regression in the ukbd probe > order. This box has no PS/2 ports and therefore I use a USB > keyboard (and have removed atkbdc, atkbd and kbdmux from my kernel). > All relevant USB devices are compiled in. > > In 7.x, ukbd probes before the kernel mounts root. In 8.x, ukbd > probes after the kernel mounts root (it actually probes asynchronously > after the "Enter full pathname of shell..." prompt). (This bit me > badly because I managed to screw up my root disk name and got > prompted with 'mountroot>' but had no keyboard).
As workaround to get your system up without bootcd can also declare the rootdev on loader prompt. -- B.Walter <be...@bwct.de> http://www.bwct.de Modbus/TCP Ethernet I/O Baugruppen, ARM basierte FreeBSD Rechner uvm. _______________________________________________ freebsd-usb@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-usb To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-usb-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
