misc/106091: Keyboard disabled at mountroot> prompt

[Jed Donnelley]

>Number:         106091
>Category:       misc
>Synopsis:       Keyboard disabled at mountroot> prompt
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Thu Nov 30 20:50:08 GMT 2006
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Jed Donnelley
>Release:        6.1 i386 as below
>Organization:
NERSC
>Environment:
FreeBSD ldap2.nersc.gov 6.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE #0: Sun May  7 04:42:56 UTC 2006     root at opus.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SMP  i386
>Description:
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.
>How-To-Repeat:
Mess up the name for the slice that mounts to / and reboot the system.
>Fix:
I mentioned a work around with a rescue boot off a CD above.
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