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

From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
To: George Georgalis <george@metrumrg.com>
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 22:28:20 +0200

 On Fri, Aug 25, 2006 at 04:18:38PM -0400, George Georgalis wrote:
 > 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.
 
 So you'll need custom kernels anyway
 
 > 
 > 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.
 
 Did you check that the kernel does actually see com1 ?
 
 -- 
 Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
      NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
 --