Using a USB keyboard at the root mount prompt

[Peter Jeremy]

On 2010-Feb-21 21:30:58 +0000, Bruce Cran <bruce at cran.org.uk> wrote:
>I just updated to the latest -CURRENT and installed the GENERIC kernel; 
>I forgot to add support for the ahci driver and thus got dropped to the 
>root mount prompt when I rebooted. Despite ukbd0 having been detected 
>just before, the keyboard didn't work so I had to reboot and use 
>kernel.old instead. Should USB keyboards work at that stage of the boot 
>process?

Interesting.  I had a similar problem a few weeks ago but in my case,
the device doesn't even get detected until much later (after the
single-user prompt).  In my case, this is a regression from 7-STABLE
but I've been unable to resolve it.

-- 
Peter Jeremy
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