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
Subject: Re: port-amd64/34259: no ps2 hardware means show stopper when usb fails
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2006 15:29:37 -0400

 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
 
 
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