Installing FreeBSD with undetected USB keyboard

[Joao Barros]

On 3/20/06, Kenyon Ralph <kralph at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 3/19/06, Andreas Rudisch <cyb. at gmx.net> wrote:
> > On Mon, 20 Mar 2006 08:04:01 +0100, Kenyon Ralph <kralph at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > I have a USB Microsoft Natural Keyboard connected to an Intel
> > > SE440BX-2 motherboard.  The keyboard works fine in the BIOS setup and
> > > in Linux booted from a CD.  Booting with a
> > > 6.0-RELEASE-i386-bootonly.iso CD gives me no keyboard functionality at
> > > all.
> >
> > Have you tried option 7 'Boot FreeBSD with USB keyboard' of the boot menu
> > yet?
>
> Kind of difficult since I can't use the keyboard. :)
>

When you have "USB Legacy support" enabled in the BIOS you should
still have a working keyboard up till the loader stage.
With that you should be able to select option 7 'Boot FreeBSD with USB
keyboard' of the boot menu as mentioned.
You should also be able to go to loader options and do a "load kbdmux"
and boot afterwards. Note this option only works on 6.1 BETA and there
are ISOs  to download :)

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Joao Barros