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

From: George Georgalis <george@metrumrg.com>
To: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>,
	David Laight <david@l8s.co.uk>
Cc: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org, port-amd64-maintainer@NetBSD.org,
	gnats-admin@NetBSD.org, netbsd-bugs@NetBSD.org,
	install-manager@NetBSD.org
Subject: Re: port-amd64/34259: no ps2 hardware means show stopper when usb fails
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2006 16:36:26 -0400

 On Fri, Aug 25, 2006 at 09:57:09PM +0200, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
 >On Fri, Aug 25, 2006 at 03:43:11PM -0400, George Georgalis wrote:
 >> Is it possible for someone to make me a 3.1_RC1 install ISO with
 >> installboot console=com1 and =com2 kernels available? It would
 >
 >Well, AFAIK installboot console=com2 should do the same thing as
 >consdev com2
 >at the boot prompt.
 
 Uh Oh!
 
 And/or per David Laight's followup,
 
 > IIRC the i386/amd64 install kernels don't have serial console support.
 
 What's next? I need kbd or serial to do even a manual install from
 RAM image.
 
 I do have a usb net interface, which works with i386/3.0.1
 GENERIC/INSTAL kernels (as I recall). but with all the usb hubs
 being disabled at amd64 boot, that's out.
 
 Took a look at bsdinstaller.org; I think it can setup a PXE server
 for installs, but it doesn't look like netbsd is supported there
 yet.
 
 Is there something else I can try?
 
 // George
 
 
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