kbdmux support for ddb and mountroot?
Maxim Sobolev
sobomax at FreeBSD.org
Sun Jun 25 23:23:04 UTC 2006
Nate Lawson wrote:
> Maxim Sobolev wrote:
>> Works here to specify alternate root just fine. I am missing something?
>>
>> -Maxim
>>
>> Nate Lawson wrote:
>>> kbdmux does not currently support ddb and mountroot in both -current
>>> and 6-stable. This means that if you get a panic, no backtrace or
>>> other interaction is possible. Also, if your /etc/fstab is wrong, no
>>> way to specify an alternate root.
>>>
>>> Are there any plans to improve this? What needs to be completed to
>>> get back to previous support for these features?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>
> I'm using a PS/2 keyboard on one machine (RELENG_6) and a built-in PS/2
> keyboard on my laptop. Neither register any keystrokes in DDB or with
> alternate root unless I disable kbdmux with the tunable.
USB keyboard works just fine here (7-CURRENT) for alternate root
selection via kbdmux. I don't know if there are some differences in
kbdmux behavior between RELENG_6 and HEAD.
-Maxim
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