Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 13:03:53 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org> To: Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PS/2 keyboard support in mid-boot borked Message-ID: <20060711200353.GB67098@dragon.NUXI.org> In-Reply-To: <44B3F729.1070009@samsco.org> References: <20060710212815.GA46336@dragon.NUXI.org> <44B2CBAA.2020407@samsco.org> <20060711181507.GA64759@dragon.NUXI.org> <44B3F729.1070009@samsco.org>
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On Tue, Jul 11, 2006 at 01:08:25PM -0600, Scott Long wrote: > 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? Not yet. The testing I mention above was done before submitting the problem to freebsd-current. I wanted to make sure it was nothing very specific to my environment (or fat fingers). -- -- 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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