PS/2 keyboard support in mid-boot borked
John Baldwin
jhb at freebsd.org
Tue Jul 11 01:15:50 UTC 2006
On Monday 10 July 2006 17:28, 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?
This is a FAQ currently I think. There are some patches floating around if
you search the archives.
--
John Baldwin
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