Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2006 02:30:17 GMT From: Jed Donnelley <jed@nersc.gov> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: misc/106091: Keyboard disabled at mountroot> prompt Message-ID: <200612010230.kB12UHUT073324@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR misc/106091; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Jed Donnelley <jed@nersc.gov> To: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org> Cc: bug-followup@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: misc/106091: Keyboard disabled at mountroot> prompt Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 18:23:39 -0800 At 06:17 PM 11/30/2006, Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org> wrote: >On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 08:42:48PM +0000, Jed Donnelley wrote: > > In the process of setting up a gmirror I messed up my fstab. > > When the boot process couldn't find a / to mount it dropped to the: > > > > mountroot> > > > > prompt. However, I found at that point that keyboard input was not > > accepted. I ended up having to start a system from a CD in "rescue" > > mode, mount the / file system from the hard drive and edit /etc/fstab > > that way. > >Was it observed over a serial console? No, KVM. Is there some reason that facility is only available over a serial console? The output displayed properly on the monitor and of course with a proper boot off a CD or HD the keyboard input worked properly. Thanks for considering this problem. --Jed http://www.webstart.com/jed/
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