PS/2 keyboard support in mid-boot borked

[Eric Anderson]

On 07/10/06 16:50, 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've had this same issue too - and setting the probe hint did indeed 
work around it.


Eric



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Eric Anderson        Sr. Systems Administrator        Centaur Technology
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