misc/106091: Keyboard disabled at mountroot> prompt

[Kris Kennaway]

On Fri, Dec 01, 2006 at 02:30:17AM +0000, Jed Donnelley wrote:
> The following reply was made to PR misc/106091; it has been noted by GNATS.
> 
> From: Jed Donnelley <jed at nersc.gov>
> To: Ruslan Ermilov <ru at FreeBSD.org>
> Cc: bug-followup at FreeBSD.org
> Subject: Re: misc/106091: Keyboard disabled at mountroot> prompt
> Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 18:23:39 -0800
> 
>  At 06:17 PM 11/30/2006, Ruslan Ermilov <ru at FreeBSD.org>  wrote:
>  >On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 08:42:48PM +0000, Jed Donnelley wrote:
>  > > In the process of setting up a gmirror I messed up my fstab.
>  > > When the boot process couldn't find a / to mount it dropped to the:
>  > >
>  > > mountroot>
>  > >
>  > > prompt.  However, I found at that point that keyboard input was not
>  > > accepted.  I ended up having to start a system from a CD in "rescue"
>  > > mode, mount the / file system from the hard drive and edit /etc/fstab
>  > > that way.
>  >
>  >Was it observed over a serial console?
>  
>  No, KVM.  Is there some reason that facility is only available over
>  a serial console?  The output displayed properly on the monitor
>  and of course with a proper boot off a CD or HD the keyboard input
>  worked properly.
>  
>  Thanks for considering this problem.

No, but it's known that on a serial console input at the mountroot
prompt is mostly ignored (i.e. if you press the key enough times it
eventually does get accepted).  This wouldn't apply to a KVM though.

Does the keyboard work in the boot loader?  i.e. if you tell the boot
menu to escape to the loader.  If not, it's something about your KVM
that is the problem.

Kris
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