On Wed, Aug 23, 2006 at 09:16:05PM +0200, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
>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).

That's not what happens, from serial console, I get:

> consdev com2                                                                  
                                                                                
                                                                                
>> NetBSD/amd64 BIOS Boot, Revision 3.2                                         
>> (builds@b1.netbsd.org, Sun Aug 20 22:12:26 UTC 2006)                         
>> Memory: 630/2096064 k                                                        
> boot                                                                          
booting fd0a:netbsd                                                             
3437976+5223824+217008=0x9788c0                                                 


and serial stops, boot continues on vga.

// George


-- 
George Georgalis, Information Systems Scientist, Metrum Research Group
2 Tunxis Road, Suite 112, Tariffville, CT 06081; direct: 860.670.4346