From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 11 03:33:32 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB10116A4DD; Tue, 11 Jul 2006 03:33:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Received: from mh2.centtech.com (moat3.centtech.com [207.200.51.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 20B6043D53; Tue, 11 Jul 2006 03:33:31 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Received: from [192.168.42.24] (andersonbox4.centtech.com [192.168.42.24]) by mh2.centtech.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id k6B3XUTj023257; Mon, 10 Jul 2006 22:33:30 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Message-ID: <44B31C0F.60900@centtech.com> Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2006 22:33:35 -0500 From: Eric Anderson User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (X11/20060612) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Scott Long References: <20060710212815.GA46336@dragon.NUXI.org> <44B2CBAA.2020407@samsco.org> In-Reply-To: <44B2CBAA.2020407@samsco.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.87.1/1591/Mon Jul 10 14:41:02 2006 on mh2.centtech.com X-Virus-Status: Clean Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PS/2 keyboard support in mid-boot borked X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 03:33:32 -0000 On 07/10/06 16:50, 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've had this same issue too - and setting the probe hint did indeed work around it. Eric -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Sr. Systems Administrator Centaur Technology Anything that works is better than anything that doesn't. ------------------------------------------------------------------------