mike@cpdist.com said:
> when it's time to start the system from the hard drive for the first
> time the keyboard input gets broken somewhere

What's happening? No input at all? Can you toggle eg the Caps-Lock
LED?

> I suspect that something
> is wrong during the "opmsprobe"

This error message doesn't mean anything. The probe messages
look OK as far as I see.

I suspect some interrupt lossage. Does the keyboard work
if you boot into the debugger (boot -d) or the root device
prompt (boot -a)?

best regards
Matthias