Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 11:15:07 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org> To: Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PS/2 keyboard support in mid-boot borked Message-ID: <20060711181507.GA64759@dragon.NUXI.org> In-Reply-To: <44B2CBAA.2020407@samsco.org> References: <20060710212815.GA46336@dragon.NUXI.org> <44B2CBAA.2020407@samsco.org>
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On Mon, Jul 10, 2006 at 03:50:34PM -0600, 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 reproduced it on two different machines, one with Pheonix BIOS, on with AMIBIOS, and two different keyboards. So I don't think it is specific to my environment. Have you been at the "mountroot>" prompt lately and had a PS/2 keyboard to work? -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org)
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