Re: booting with usb keyboard hangs system

["Sascha Wildner" <saw@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 12 May 2011 09:00:11 +0200, Babu Chaliyath  
<babu.chaliyath@gmail.com> wrote:

> Ooops sorry for the goof up with SMP, yes its my mistake as I was
> selecting wrong option I did try to boot with smp but no use, Did a
> verbose booting with your suggested option set in the boot loader set
> hint.ehci.0.disabled="1"  but I am still stuck at the same issue of
> usb keyboard going dead with following last lines of the verbose boot
> process when booting from CD
>
> atkbdc0.isa0.isab0.pci0.pcib0.acpi0.nexus0.root0
> atkbdc0: <Keyboard controller (i8042)> [tentative] at port 0x60, 0x64 on  
> isa0
> atkbd0.atkbdc0.isa0.isab0.pci0.pcib0.acpi0.nexus0.root0
> atkbd0: <AT Keyboard> [tentative] flags 0x1 irq 1 on atkbdc0
>
> Tried changing usb ports but no luck
>
> Babu

OK, try instead setting hw.usb.hack_defer_exploration to 1 from the loader  
prompt:

hw.usb.hack_defer_exploration=1

Sascha

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