PS/2 keyboard support in mid-boot borked
Scott Long
scottl at samsco.org
Mon Jul 10 21:50:53 UTC 2006
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?
Scott
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