PS/2 keyboard support in mid-boot borked

[Scott Long]

David O'Brien wrote:
> 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?
>  

Did you try the setting I suggested, or the patch that John refered to?

Scott