PS/2 keyboard support in mid-boot borked

David O'Brien obrien at freebsd.org
Mon Jul 10 21:28:29 UTC 2006


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?

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-- David  (obrien at FreeBSD.org)


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