PS/2 keyboard support in mid-boot borked

[David O'Brien]

On Mon, Jul 10, 2006 at 03:50:34PM -0600, 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 reproduced it on two different machines, one with Pheonix BIOS, on with
AMIBIOS, and two different keyboards.  So I don't think it is specific to
my environment.  Have you been at the "mountroot>" prompt lately and had
a PS/2 keyboard to work?
 
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-- David  (obrien at FreeBSD.org)