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

From: David O'Brien <obrien_at_freebsd.org>
Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 11:16:00 -0700
On Mon, Jul 10, 2006 at 08:27:17PM -0400, John Baldwin wrote:
> 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.

I hope this will be something more than a FAQ with some patches floating
around for 7.0-RELEASE.
 
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-- David  (obrien_at_FreeBSD.org)
Q: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation.
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