Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2014 15:54:18 +0200 From: Kimmo Paasiala <kpaasial@gmail.com> To: Ronald Klop <ronald-lists@klop.ws> Cc: "freebsd-stable@freebsd.org" <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Mountroot prompt with the new vt(4) console not working. Message-ID: <CA%2B7WWSeiRnjoZR5wea7T3fBPJixH2o1XTz8Mpp%2B0D=PwaNdW3w@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CA%2B7WWSer3a1dGaP4yWjYaVQ7yryEELgqQSv7q6MFhu4PXo5ctQ@mail.gmail.com> References: <CA%2B7WWSeG1=nosP2wc6P22vZYhhrVqXL7=9yrNnY%2BKEsrjUMJrg@mail.gmail.com> <op.xpinr310kndu52@ronaldradial.radialsg.local> <CA%2B7WWSer3a1dGaP4yWjYaVQ7yryEELgqQSv7q6MFhu4PXo5ctQ@mail.gmail.com>
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On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 3:37 PM, Kimmo Paasiala <kpaasial@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 12:37 PM, Ronald Klop <ronald-lists@klop.ws> wrote: >> On Sat, 15 Nov 2014 13:03:38 +0100, Kimmo Paasiala <kpaasial@gmail.com> >> 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 Just tested mountroot prompt with vt(4) on an AMD64 VirtualBox virtual machine that has releng/10.1, not the final release though. Same exact problem. -Kimmo
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