From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 11 18:15:11 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 59E5116A4DA for ; Tue, 11 Jul 2006 18:15:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: from dragon.NUXI.org (trang.nuxi.com [66.93.134.19]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 93FF743D69 for ; Tue, 11 Jul 2006 18:15:10 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: from dragon.NUXI.org (obrien@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dragon.NUXI.org (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k6BIF9lA064810; Tue, 11 Jul 2006 11:15:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.NUXI.org) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.NUXI.org (8.13.6/8.13.1/Submit) id k6BIF7gd064809; Tue, 11 Jul 2006 11:15:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 11:15:07 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" To: Scott Long Message-ID: <20060711181507.GA64759@dragon.NUXI.org> Mail-Followup-To: obrien@freebsd.org, Scott Long , freebsd-current@freebsd.org References: <20060710212815.GA46336@dragon.NUXI.org> <44B2CBAA.2020407@samsco.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <44B2CBAA.2020407@samsco.org> X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD Group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PS/2 keyboard support in mid-boot borked X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: obrien@freebsd.org List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 18:15:11 -0000 On Mon, Jul 10, 2006 at 03:50:34PM -0600, 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 reproduced it on two different machines, one with Pheonix BIOS, on with AMIBIOS, and two different keyboards. So I don't think it is specific to my environment. Have you been at the "mountroot>" prompt lately and had a PS/2 keyboard to work? -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org)