misc/106091: Keyboard disabled at mountroot> prompt

[Ruslan Ermilov]

The following reply was made to PR misc/106091; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru at FreeBSD.org>
To: Jed Donnelley <jed at nersc.gov>
Cc: bug-followup at FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: misc/106091: Keyboard disabled at mountroot> prompt
Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2006 00:23:21 +0300

 --F8dlzb82+Fcn6AgP
 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
 Content-Disposition: inline
 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
 
 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:
 >=20
 > mountroot>
 >=20
 > 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.
 >=20
 Was it observed over a serial console?
 
 
 Cheers,
 --=20
 Ruslan Ermilov
 ru at FreeBSD.org
 FreeBSD committer
 
 --F8dlzb82+Fcn6AgP
 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature
 Content-Disposition: inline
 
 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
 Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (FreeBSD)
 
 iD8DBQFFb0vJqRfpzJluFF4RApLdAJ0Ycn6V77fKLgxfEH/TpQcCRrlyDQCeNC7o
 rNAZuz2vdIdfuY9AvJ+r7Aw=
 =cFBh
 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
 
 --F8dlzb82+Fcn6AgP--