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Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 09:40:20 +0800
From: "Jiawei Ye" <leafy7382@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: PS/2 keyboard support in mid-boot borked
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On 7/11/06, John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> wrote:
> On Monday 10 July 2006 17:28, 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?
>
> This is a FAQ currently I think.  There are some patches floating around if
> you search the archives.
>
> --
> John Baldwin
set hint.kbdmux0.disabled="1" at the boot prompt temporarily works
around this problem.

Jiawei Ye
-- 
"Without the userland, the kernel is useless."
               --inspired by The Tao of Programming