From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 11 19:08:49 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 7444316A4DA; Tue, 11 Jul 2006 19:08:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from scottl@samsco.org) Received: from pooker.samsco.org (pooker.samsco.org [168.103.85.57]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 01D6743D62; Tue, 11 Jul 2006 19:08:42 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from scottl@samsco.org) Received: from [10.10.3.185] ([69.15.205.254]) (authenticated bits=0) by pooker.samsco.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k6BJ8WGs055288; Tue, 11 Jul 2006 13:08:38 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from scottl@samsco.org) Message-ID: <44B3F729.1070009@samsco.org> Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 13:08:25 -0600 From: Scott Long User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20060206 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: obrien@freebsd.org References: <20060710212815.GA46336@dragon.NUXI.org> <44B2CBAA.2020407@samsco.org> <20060711181507.GA64759@dragon.NUXI.org> In-Reply-To: <20060711181507.GA64759@dragon.NUXI.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=3.8 tests=none autolearn=failed version=3.1.1 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.1 (2006-03-10) on pooker.samsco.org 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 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 19:08:49 -0000 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