Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 11:16:00 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org> To: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PS/2 keyboard support in mid-boot borked Message-ID: <20060711181600.GB64759@dragon.NUXI.org> In-Reply-To: <200607102027.18106.jhb@freebsd.org> References: <20060710212815.GA46336@dragon.NUXI.org> <200607102027.18106.jhb@freebsd.org>
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On Mon, Jul 10, 2006 at 08:27:17PM -0400, John Baldwin wrote: > On Monday 10 July 2006 17:28, 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? > > This is a FAQ currently I think. There are some patches floating around if > you search the archives. I hope this will be something more than a FAQ with some patches floating around for 7.0-RELEASE. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org) Q: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. A: Why is top-posting (putting a reply at the top of the message) frowned upon?
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