Tried (and eventually succeeded) installing NetBSD on a machine with remote console access only.
It's a pretty standard machine (Intel Xeon E3-1240 v5), but I only have access via a remote console (American Megatrends KVM Remote Console Utility Version 2.36). The main issue I had was that the kernel didn't accept any keyboard inputs when asking for the root device. I looks like the remote console uses virtual USB devices for the keyboard and mouse: [ 2.368384] uhidev0: American Megatrends Inc. (0x046b) Virtual Keyboard and Mouse (0xff10), rev 1.10/1.00, addr 2, iclass 3/1 [ 2.368384] uhidev1: American Megatrends Inc. (0x046b) Virtual Keyboard and Mouse (0xff10), rev 1.10/1.00, addr 2, iclass 3/1 But there is also a PC keyboard device: [ 1.024915] pckbc0 at isa0 port 0x60-0x64 [ 1.024915] autoconfiguration error: pckbc: cmd word write error Not sure what the error is about, but it probably confused the kernel enough to not have a working keyboard. So I initially tried to rebuild a kernel without the pckbc driver - that only got a bit further to the point that the kernel then panicked in ukbd_set_leds_task. I then disabled that code as well, and it started working, and I could input the correct root device. Now that I got it running, keyboard input actually works on the console (even without my changes). BTW, the kernel I rebuilt was from HEAD, but I am now using the normal GENERIC 11.0 beta kernel (and verified again that keyboard input doesn't work when the kernel asks for the root device, but works to login via getty). Any thoughts on this - would there have been an easier way to get around this? (other than writing the image fully-preconfigured to disk - but at that point I wasn't sure if the keyboard was the only problem, and debugging any issues is so much more difficult without any keyboard) Christof -- https://cmeerw.org sip:cmeerw at cmeerw.org mailto:cmeerw at cmeerw.org xmpp:cmeerw at cmeerw.org
