Bug#248855: Useful clues for non-working USB keyboard on SunBlade 150 / sparc64

[Vincent.McIntyre@csiro.au]

On Wed, 15 Dec 2004, Frans Pop wrote:

> On Wednesday 15 December 2004 14:37, Frans Pop wrote:
> > I've created a new image set that contains all available usb modules on
> > the initrd. This will only work for sparc64; sparc32 has no additional
> > usb modules. http://kitenet.net/~joey/tmp/sunblade/2/ Give it a try and
> > let us know.
>
> It appears there was a problem with that image.
> Please try http://kitenet.net/~joey/tmp/sunblade/3/ instead.

I tried the mini.iso, md5 sum a6f66ae6e0c61f1ed029e89d584e4869.
Didn't have much luck I'm afraid. Here is what I was able to transcribe
by hand.


# halt
ok setenv auto-boot? false
ok reset-all
ok boot cdrom
SILO 1.4.8
boot: <ret>
...
 kbd_init: assuming USB keyboard
...
 usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs
 usb.c: registered new driver hub
 usb.c: registered new driver usbmouse
 usbmouse.c v1.6 HID Boot Protocol
 usb.c: registered new driver usbkeybd
 usbkeybd.c: USB HID Boot Protocol
 mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
...
 Freeing initrd memory: 2139k freed
 Kernel panic: VFS unable to mount root fs on 00:00
  Press L1-A to return to the boot prom

At this point the keyboard is inoperative, L1-A doesn't work.

power down
power up

ok boot cdrom
boot: expert

 this gets farther. I get taken to the main menu (not language-chooser)
 and the keyboard is again inoperative. I tried tab, <esc>, arrow keys,
 <ctrl>p, <ctrl>n, etc, and L1-A. None of these keys produced a result.

power down
power up

ok boot cdrom
boot: expert console-tools/arch="USB keyboard"

 same result.

I was unable to save any of the logs for these attempts, without a
keyboard it's quite difficult. Also, it's unclear to me if the machine
was running at all, it may have frozen.

Am I typing the wrong spell at the boot: prompt?

Vince