The following reply was made to PR port-amd64/34259; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: port-amd64-maintainer@NetBSD.org, gnats-admin@NetBSD.org,
	netbsd-bugs@NetBSD.org, george@metrumrg.com
Subject: Re: port-amd64/34259: no ps2 hardware means show stopper when usb fails
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2006 21:16:05 +0200

 On Wed, Aug 23, 2006 at 02:25:03AM +0000, George Georgalis wrote:
 > The following reply was made to PR port-amd64/34259; it has been noted by GNATS.
 > 
 > From: "George Georgalis" <george@galis.org>
 > To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
 > Cc: 
 > Subject: Re: port-amd64/34259: no ps2 hardware means show stopper when usb fails
 > Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2006 20:37:14 -0400
 > 
 >  On Tue, Aug 22, 2006 at 09:40:00PM +0000, gnats-admin@netbsd.org wrote:
 >  >Thank you very much for your problem report.
 >  >It has the internal identification `port-amd64/34259'.
 >  >The individual assigned to look at your
 >  >report is: port-amd64-maintainer. 
 >  >
 >  >>Category:       port-amd64
 >  >>Responsible:    port-amd64-maintainer
 >  >>Synopsis:       usb device problem, no ps/2, so no keyboard
 >  >>Arrival-Date:   Tue Aug 22 21:40:00 +0000 2006
 >  
 >  The host will redirect bios to com2, but after kernel checksum,
 >  serial access is over.  Is it possible to put a com2 kernel on the
 >  install disk?
 
 you should be able to change this from the boot promt:
 consdev com2
 and then you should see the boot loader prompt on com2 (and nothing on
 VGA any more).
 
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