From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 18 13:54:19 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 481C1156 for ; Tue, 18 Nov 2014 13:54:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-vc0-x22e.google.com (mail-vc0-x22e.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:400c:c03::22e]) (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 F2A81916 for ; Tue, 18 Nov 2014 13:54:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-vc0-f174.google.com with SMTP id la4so8737448vcb.33 for ; Tue, 18 Nov 2014 05:54:18 -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=hmTMhKBkZGC6Ah+NPKQ4bteublZ06moSlOkzaxTlrBg=; b=Nj7xhRYHnfX+XYbtGus6CpQ1cfchsyeuI+CYK4zidiwRK+mgW58lcpzcIFSxohwj1/ klvgLK2fQWvtIt8Bl4CwJFB3hZ26EkXir30Bs5Shr9AyPF3vE3CiWbwOFJUlC8AwliJD gVV/gaasJlZtq4ZcpK9wVjyN6IBcgp3uYeUwMStijE0V7cEWKFD7RBCksJtRNham7amI i6kZOJSac7mDF9qu+HL16OI7Z55RrPVj07BZvzNQKoBrv6EbwVoXOHOSFucluculaWjh Lf2iXoUfyPRSxhwBcbk9nigEYB8MTQ2RsX1WaXgLAfCM8Vtzx3NfVIp0P/zNEadIDDQR 6whQ== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.52.26.45 with SMTP id i13mr135550vdg.93.1416318858161; Tue, 18 Nov 2014 05:54:18 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.31.142.77 with HTTP; Tue, 18 Nov 2014 05:54:18 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2014 15:54:18 +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 13:54:19 -0000 On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 3:37 PM, Kimmo Paasiala wrote: > 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 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