On Wed, Jun 20, 2007 at 04:53:56PM -0400, Greg A. Woods wrote:
> I picked up an el-cheapo rack-mount server on eBay a couple of weeks
> ago.  It arrived with RH-Linux installed and bootable.
> 
> However when I went to boot my latest netbsd-4 CD-ROM and install NetBSD
> on it, all went reasonably well (sans some major timeouts and delays
> probing the IDE devices) until it came time to type something at
> sysinst.  The keyboard is lifeless, and the numlock light had gone out.
> Unplugging and re-inserting the keyboard causes the lights to flash, but
> it's still dead.
> 
> The motherboard is apparently an Asus P2B-D.
> 
> The BIOS reports "Asus P2B-D ACPI BIOS Revision 1012B" and the bottom
> line on the screen shows "03/03/00-i440BX-P2B-D-00"
> 
> The BIOS is an "Award BIOS v4.51PG"
> 
> (apparently there's a "BIOS Revision 1014d003" available that I'll try
> at some point if I can figure out how to load it)
> 
> The keyboard works fine in the BIOS setup screens, and in RH-Linux.
> 
> When I plugged a USB keyboard in, the kernel complained about some kind
> of problem and disabled the USB port.
> 
> (That's an INSTALL_LARGE kernel of course, built from sources updated
> from the netbsd-4 branch as of about 2007/06/15 or so.)

Could you try
boot -c
disable acpi

or boot the INSTALL kernel

-- 
Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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