Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 22:03:00 -0500 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Jed Donnelley <jed@nersc.gov> Cc: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: misc/106091: Keyboard disabled at mountroot> prompt Message-ID: <20061201030300.GA93999@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <200612010230.kB12UHUT073324@freefall.freebsd.org> References: <200612010230.kB12UHUT073324@freefall.freebsd.org>
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--T4sUOijqQbZv57TR Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Dec 01, 2006 at 02:30:17AM +0000, Jed Donnelley wrote: > The following reply was made to PR misc/106091; it has been noted by GNAT= S. >=20 > 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 >=20 > 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? > =20 > 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. > =20 > Thanks for considering this problem. No, but it's known that on a serial console input at the mountroot prompt is mostly ignored (i.e. if you press the key enough times it eventually does get accepted). This wouldn't apply to a KVM though. Does the keyboard work in the boot loader? i.e. if you tell the boot menu to escape to the loader. If not, it's something about your KVM that is the problem. Kris --T4sUOijqQbZv57TR Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFFb5tkWry0BWjoQKURAjhJAKCWDOdJXrGHD/a6W+ZUyHZQsIjZowCglipg 4PvsW5n1yCwNUU5sPMDUBeo= =xDxM -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --T4sUOijqQbZv57TR--
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