i386/108828: Can not install 6.2-release on a USB keyboard system

[Remko Lodder]

The following reply was made to PR i386/108828; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Remko Lodder" <remko at elvandar.org>
To: "Bakul Shah" <bakul at bitblocks.com>
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: i386/108828: Can not install 6.2-release on a USB keyboard 
     system
Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2007 08:56:21 +0100 (CET)

 Would it be somehow possible to obtain the startup information from the
 system?
 -- 
 Kind regards,
 
    Remko Lodder  ** remko at elvandar.org
         FreeBSD  ** remko at FreeBSD.org
 
    /* Quis Custodiet ipsos custodes */
 
 > On a Dell Dimension 9200 system there is no ps2 keyboard.  The bios
 > has legacy support so its usb attached keyboard works until freebsd
 > boots.  Using this, I escaped to the loader prompt and added
 >
 > set hint.atkbd.0.flags="0x1"
 >
 > This is what a 5.5 installer does when you choose "Boot FreeBSD with
 > USB keyboard" but the usb keyboard is not recognized.  On a different
 > system I checked that usb keyboard support is compiled in the kernel
 > so it appears this is a bug....