Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 20:42:48 GMT From: Jed Donnelley<jed@nersc.gov> To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: misc/106091: Keyboard disabled at mountroot> prompt Message-ID: <200611302042.kAUKgm6K047236@www.freebsd.org> Resent-Message-ID: <200611302050.kAUKo9hf018157@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 106091 >Category: misc >Synopsis: Keyboard disabled at mountroot> prompt >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: low >Responsible: freebsd-bugs >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: sw-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Thu Nov 30 20:50:08 GMT 2006 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Jed Donnelley >Release: 6.1 i386 as below >Organization: NERSC >Environment: FreeBSD ldap2.nersc.gov 6.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE #0: Sun May 7 04:42:56 UTC 2006 root@opus.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SMP i386 >Description: In the process of setting up a gmirror I messed up my fstab. When the boot process couldn't find a / to mount it dropped to the: mountroot> prompt. However, I found at that point that keyboard input was not accepted. I ended up having to start a system from a CD in "rescue" mode, mount the / file system from the hard drive and edit /etc/fstab that way. >How-To-Repeat: Mess up the name for the slice that mounts to / and reboot the system. >Fix: I mentioned a work around with a rescue boot off a CD above. >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted:
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