Re: PS/2 keyboard support in mid-boot borked

On Tue, Jul 11, 2006 at 01:08:25PM -0600, Scott Long wrote:
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?

Did you try the setting I suggested, or the patch that John refered to?

Not yet. The testing I mention above was done before submitting the
problem to freebsd-current. I wanted to make sure it was nothing very
specific to my environment (or fat fingers).

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