PS/2 keyboard support in mid-boot borked

[Ruslan Ermilov]

On Tue, Jul 11, 2006 at 11:15:07AM -0700, 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?
>  
Never worked for me.  Would be great to know if it can be made to work.


Cheers,
-- 
Ruslan Ermilov
ru at FreeBSD.org
FreeBSD committer
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