The following reply was made to PR port-amd64/34259; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
To: George Georgalis <george@metrumrg.com>
Cc: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org, port-amd64-maintainer@NetBSD.org,
	gnats-admin@NetBSD.org, netbsd-bugs@NetBSD.org
Subject: Re: port-amd64/34259: no ps2 hardware means show stopper when usb fails
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2006 22:03:59 +0200

 On Wed, Aug 23, 2006 at 03:29:37PM -0400, George Georgalis wrote:
 > >you should be able to change this from the boot promt:
 > >consdev com2
 > >and then you should see the boot loader prompt on com2 (and nothing on
 > >VGA any more).
 > 
 > That's not what happens, from serial console, I get:
 > 
 > > consdev com2                                                                  
 >                                                                                 
 >                                                                                 
 > >> NetBSD/amd64 BIOS Boot, Revision 3.2                                         
 > >> (builds@b1.netbsd.org, Sun Aug 20 22:12:26 UTC 2006)                         
 > >> Memory: 630/2096064 k                                                        
 > > boot                                                                          
 > booting fd0a:netbsd                                                             
 > 3437976+5223824+217008=0x9788c0                                                 
 > 
 > 
 > and serial stops, boot continues on vga.
 
 Then this doesn't work the same way as on i386 :(
 Maybe this could need another PR ...
 
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