On 7/8/05, Nick Holland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Z L wrote: > > I been trying to install OpenBSD 3.7 and/ or 3.5 in my new laptop (new > > means it was bought in September, 2004). The bootloader get stuck at > > "pckbc0 ISA Q Port 0x60/5" every time. > > > > Oddly both 3.5 and 3.7 giving me the same error and getting stuck at > > the same place. > > > > I tried to boot with boot_menuconfig(8) and did "boot -c" and then > > "verbose" and it says: > > > > "probing for pckbc0 > > probing for pckbc0 succeeded > > pckbc0" > > > > and then it is stuck their eternally. > > > > I have also tried to disable pckbc0 but if I do so it fails to > > recognize a lot of hardware but I get the shell prompt and then my > > keyboard does not work. > > hmm. Interesting, does give me an idea how to get through that problem: > plug a USB keyboard in. > > It will probably help you get it installed, and it *might* then work. > No promises on that...but there have been cases where the GENERIC kernel > would work fine but the install kernels don't.
It, unfortunately, didn't solve the problem. The problem is same with 3.5 and 3.7 (and maybe 3.6 which I haven't tested). Is there any other way I can get around this? Also, I cannot get dmesg because it just doesn't boot! :-(
