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From: Jed Donnelley <jed@nersc.gov>
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Subject: Re: misc/106091: Keyboard disabled at mountroot> prompt
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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/