On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 10:46:28AM +1000, Michael Vince wrote: > Yeah for some reason I couldn't do that, I can't even remember all the > reasons now but the main reason is because I have a USB keyboard, for > some reason I can use the USB keyboard in the BIOS but as soon as the > boot loader starts with the 10sec menu I loose all control of the keyboard. > Booting into fixit mode from the CDROM loads the USB drivers (as well as > not hanging up the OS anywhere) so I could mount the filesystem and fix it.
I can confirm this problem, and have been fighting with it for quite some time. BIOS is configured for "USB Legacy" support (which should enable the keyboard in such environments). boot0, boot2, and loader all accept the keyboard just fine. Once the kernel loads, it loads the usb layer, detects the keyboard (via ukbd), and of course pops up the "Pick a shell" single-user prompt. But no keyboard input. This behaviour happened only on my Intel machine; my current AMD machine does not do this. The problem as I saw it (which may be an incorrect prognosis, since my AMD box says the same thing as the Intel via dmesg, but behaves fine) was that the FreeBSD kernel was considering the default keyboard device as atkbd* rather than ukbd*. It wasn't a problem outside of single-user, since usbd would load and do some magic to make it all work... but usbd doesn't get loaded in single-user. :-) The workaround I found was to use some loader.conf tweaks to disable specific AT/PS2 keyboard devices. I believe I used something like this, but I can't remember (and don't have loader.conf from my Intel box :( -- And yes, I know psm is for the mouse): hint.atkbdc.0.disabled="1" hint.atkbd.0.disabled="1" hint.psm.0.disabled="1" This oversight really needs to be addressed. I'll gladly buy anyone who wishes to solve it a new USB keyboard to test/debug with. -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB | _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
