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Date:      Mon, 10 Jul 2006 15:50:34 -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:  <44B2CBAA.2020407@samsco.org>
In-Reply-To: <20060710212815.GA46336@dragon.NUXI.org>
References:  <20060710212815.GA46336@dragon.NUXI.org>

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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?

Scott




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