Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2006 22:33:35 -0500 From: Eric Anderson <anderson@centtech.com> To: Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PS/2 keyboard support in mid-boot borked Message-ID: <44B31C0F.60900@centtech.com> In-Reply-To: <44B2CBAA.2020407@samsco.org> References: <20060710212815.GA46336@dragon.NUXI.org> <44B2CBAA.2020407@samsco.org>
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On 07/10/06 16:50, Scott Long wrote: > David O'Brien wrote: >> For months now PS/2 keyboard support has been broken during boot with the >> GENERIC kernel. >> >> If one has an error in /etc/fstab such that / cannot be mounted, the >> kernel prompts with >> Manual root filesystems specification: >> [examples listed] >> mountroot> >> >> However one cannot respond to the prompt as keyboard input is ignored. >> This seems to be a casualty of kbdmux(4) support being committed back in >> February. Is anyone working on fixing this? >> > > Yours is definitely the exception case. Does setting the keyboard probe > hint hack make a difference? I've had this same issue too - and setting the probe hint did indeed work around it. Eric -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Sr. Systems Administrator Centaur Technology Anything that works is better than anything that doesn't. ------------------------------------------------------------------------
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