Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 13:08:25 -0600 From: Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org> To: obrien@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PS/2 keyboard support in mid-boot borked Message-ID: <44B3F729.1070009@samsco.org> In-Reply-To: <20060711181507.GA64759@dragon.NUXI.org> References: <20060710212815.GA46336@dragon.NUXI.org> <44B2CBAA.2020407@samsco.org> <20060711181507.GA64759@dragon.NUXI.org>
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David O'Brien wrote: > 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? > Did you try the setting I suggested, or the patch that John refered to? Scott
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