From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 18 13:37:36 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 8D3A0909 for ; Tue, 18 Nov 2014 13:37:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-vc0-x236.google.com (mail-vc0-x236.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:400c:c03::236]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 44D4D6C2 for ; Tue, 18 Nov 2014 13:37:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-vc0-f182.google.com with SMTP id im17so8649462vcb.27 for ; Tue, 18 Nov 2014 05:37:35 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=0UhN1OPIEzD87AIwUq69wv0+UpCfkbLGECjEnWDZtWE=; b=M1i/fxmkW+uG3k8zpun8YD2VW/LJ3mocimbhjsE1sF3qt7N3gkOzXX1Q7aFc3pZ9DG ATlfmsLKZa3a+eCa4RnQDii6OtkAsW7MYO844s/Pd23sYBDUsjYnnajk2dtl/dX64mLA gSqnMLN6SRTMdc5PG2xK8iXYNY89sDCCUAJN0mjoCipVTZw83RAGEUF3hTVYq2TD0x5e dvD90OFAFoHoQTBZTPCb12ecfdk+GwjO+NSXJhIso2n/LlaUKAZtKGPtSZl20teDYn43 NSVsYHaozRRq5U86oXqPst50bYtRdj2zhWrNS/SpZvtqGkmvaWsxNWSv1vJHW07xTU45 adiw== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.220.132.210 with SMTP id c18mr9792093vct.35.1416317855353; Tue, 18 Nov 2014 05:37:35 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.31.142.77 with HTTP; Tue, 18 Nov 2014 05:37:35 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2014 15:37:35 +0200 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Mountroot prompt with the new vt(4) console not working. From: Kimmo Paasiala To: Ronald Klop Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Cc: "freebsd-stable@freebsd.org" X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2014 13:37:36 -0000 On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 12:37 PM, Ronald Klop wrote: > On Sat, 15 Nov 2014 13:03:38 +0100, Kimmo Paasiala > wrote: > >> I'm not able to use the mountroot prompt with the new vt(4) console on >> any of the systems I have, all of them either stable/10 or >> releng/10.1. The problem is that I can't type anything at the prompt >> or if I can the letters appear as garbage and they come out like one >> character every five seconds. Is the mountroot prompt working for >> anyone who is using the new vt(4) console? >> >> -Kimmo > > > Not much reaction on this one. It can help if you tell more about your > setup. > - What kind of keyboard (USB or PS/2)? What country/language is the keyboard > for? > - GENERIC kernel or custom? > - What video driver are you using with vt? > - Any custom settings while booting? > - etc. > > Regards, > Ronald. > _______________________________________________ It's a PS/2 keyboard. Only the default VGA driver is used with vt(4). These are my loader.conf(5) settings on one of my systems: loader_logo="beastie" hw.usb.no_pf=1 kern.cam.ada.legacy_aliases=0 kern.vty=vt kern.geom.label.gptid.enable=0 This particular system is a firewall based on rather old Jetway J7F2WE1F2E Mini-ITX motherboard: http://www.jetwaycomputer.com/J7F2.html I don't exactly need vt(4) console on my systems because they are just firewalls and servers so no X anywhere but I'd like to know if other people have the same problem and if it's a problem with the vt(4) driver or something peculiar to my systems, BIOS problem or something else. -Kimmo