[REGRESSION] Root zpool mounting broken between 06/30/2013 and 07/21/2013 when PS/2 support compiled into the kernel

[John-Mark Gurney]

Garrett Cooper wrote this message on Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 03:51 -0700:
> >>> Also, you would need to get verbose dmesg's of old and new kernels as a
> >>> first step in narrowing it down.
> >> I can't do trivial debugging because my USB keyboard doesn't work at
> >> the mountroot prompt (
> >> https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=133989 ), I don't
> >> have a PS/2 keyboard, and the system only has VGA access :(. I'll try
> >> working on disabling the PS/2 controller in the BIOS and a few other
> >> things to force the system to stop ignoring the USB keyboard to get
> >> scrollback, because that appeared to work for some folks with this
> >> issue according to the ukbd bug I referenced.
> > 
> > Do you have a serial port so you could use a serial console (or is this a 
> > laptop)?
> 
> I wish my motherboard had an RS232 port, but unfortunately it doesn?t; I don?t have 2 USB RS-232 converters either (and I?m not sure a USB serial adapter would work for boot2sio, would it?) :/.

Most motherboards still have a 10 pin connector on it that you can plug
in a IDC-10 to DB9 adapter...

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