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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