Re: NetBSD appears not to support motherboard/chipset

John Warmann wrote:
> I am trying to install NetBSD 3.1 amd64 on my machine but i think the 
> motherboard/chipset is not supported. I have 3 machines P4, Athon 64 3200+ and
> Athlon 64 4000+. All three machines are connected to the same input devices
> with a KVM. The P4 runs Linux and NetBSD using the same keyboard, so i'm sure 
> the keyboard is ok.
> I also have FreeBSD and Gentoo Linux installed on the 3200+ and was trying to 
> install NetBSD 3.1 on that same machine. It boots up and gets to the first screen,
> language choice screen, then absolutely no response to keyboard input, so
> there's nothing I can do but reboot manually. To make sure it was not the KVM
> causing problems, I connected the keyboard directly, still no response.
> I also tried NetBSD 2.0, 3.1 i386, NetBSD Live and another keyboard and the results are the same.
> I can't get a dmesg when I can't even enter text. Machine specs below:
>
> Athlon 64 3200+ socket 939
> MSI RS480M2-IL Motherboard
>   
This board has a buggy bios. Booting into autoconf (boot -c)
and disabling pckbc0 should get your usb keyboard working.
Alternatively you can disable uhci in the bios and and use
a PS/2 keyboard.