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

From: George Georgalis <george@metrumrg.com>
To: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
Cc: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org, port-amd64-maintainer@NetBSD.org,
	gnats-admin@NetBSD.org, netbsd-bugs@NetBSD.org,
	install-manager@NetBSD.org
Subject: Re: port-amd64/34259: no ps2 hardware means show stopper when usb fails
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2006 16:18:38 -0400

 On Fri, Aug 25, 2006 at 10:00:35PM +0200, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
 >On Fri, Aug 25, 2006 at 03:43:11PM -0400, George Georgalis wrote:
 >> Is it possible for someone to make me a 3.1_RC1 install ISO with
 >> installboot console=com1 and =com2 kernels available? It would
 >
 >Hum, just thinking about it, does the kernel see com2 ?
 >I see that amd64 GENERIC and INSTALL have only com0 and com1.
 
 The blade with an issue has only com2 available.
 
 On another USB only amd64 with an otherwise working install,
 com1 is the available serial port, and it does the same thing...
 boots to VGA after checksum to serial.
 
 // George
 
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