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

From: John Baldwin <jhb_at_freebsd.org> Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2006 20:27:17 -0400 · This archive was generated by hypermail 2.4.0 : Wed May 19 2021 - 11:38:58 UTC

On Monday 10 July 2006 17:28, 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?

This is a FAQ currently I think.  There are some patches floating around if
you search the archives.

-- 
John Baldwin