Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 21:18:34 +0300 From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@freebsd.org> To: obrien@freebsd.org, Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PS/2 keyboard support in mid-boot borked Message-ID: <20060711181834.GH56190@ip.net.ua> In-Reply-To: <20060711181507.GA64759@dragon.NUXI.org> References: <20060710212815.GA46336@dragon.NUXI.org> <44B2CBAA.2020407@samsco.org> <20060711181507.GA64759@dragon.NUXI.org>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Tue, Jul 11, 2006 at 11:15:07AM -0700, David O'Brien wrote: > 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? > Never worked for me. Would be great to know if it can be made to work. Cheers, -- Ruslan Ermilov ru@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFEs+t6qRfpzJluFF4RAqj1AKCNtI94ZPOOF07cm3FgR5WEZ5jM4wCfT0cU 24RX0A928uAOqf9pr0M3vjU= =lBBB -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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