Hi Matthew,

At 01:41 PM 11/4/2005 -0500, Matthew Orgass wrote:
>On 2005-11-04 tmm@mcci.com wrote:
>
> > yielded the conclusion that (a) others have seen it (b) nobody has
> > published a  fix for it (which is not to say that a fix doesn't exist).
>
>   Not a fix, but another possible workaround would be to try a usb
>keyboard in pckbc emulated mode if you have one handy (you need to turn
>off either uhci/ohci/ehci or pckbc to be able to use ddb after usb
>is/would be detected).

Thanks for the suggestion -- it lead us to the (in retrospect) 
obvious step of attaching a USB keyboard.  [Ironic, considering what 
we do to pay the bills.]

We disconnected the PS/2 keyboard and attached a USB keyboard.  The 
kbc write error still came up, as did "no /dev/console", but the USB 
keyboard works.  This means we should be able to break out of the 
install, get the dmesg, put it on a USB flash drive and (eventually) 
post something to the list.  More in a few days.  Because of existing 
infrastructure, if we're going to use this machine we need to get the 
PS/2 port working....

--Terry