Re: diagnosing post-install boot failure

[Ben Collver <bencollver%riseup.net@localhost>]

On Wed, Feb 25, 2026 at 07:22:05PM +0000, Mike Pumford wrote:
> On 24/02/2026 23:09, Ben Collver wrote:
> > Unfortunately, i could not type anything after "boot -c".  I assume it
> > is because this computer only has USB ports and no PS/2 keyboard.
>
> That would be unusual as USB keyboards usually work in the bootloader. If
> you can interact with the BIOS with a USB keyboard it should be fine in the
> bootloader.

I tried this on a NetBSD/i386 system and indeed the USB keyboard did
work in both the bootloader and in the uc> prompt after "boot -c".
So i guess that problem was specific to my hardware.