Re: PS/2 keyboard support in mid-boot borked

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?

Scott