On 2003-11-16 mouse@Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA wrote:

> Then I booted ("boot -as").  The kernel loaded fine, prompted for root
> (I typed wd0e), dump (I let it default), and filesystem type (also
> defaulted).  Then it fired off init, which prompted for a shell or
> RETURN for sh.
>
> But at this prompt the keyboard is dead.  RETURN does nothing.
> Ctl-Alt-Del does nothing.  Ctl-Alt-Esc does nothing.  I've tried it
> three times, being very careful to not touch the keyboard after the
> filesystem-type response the second two times, and it's consistent.  At
> first I thought this might be KBD_DELAY being too low a value (as a few
> of you may recall I reported problems with here quite some time back),
> until I realized that the keyboard (a) worked fine at the
> root/dump/fstype prompts and (b) worked fine from the install floppies
> (which presumably were built with the same KBD_DELAY define as the
> GENERIC kernel I'm using).
>
> Any thoughts on what might be wrong?  Obviously, a nonworking keyboard
> is a pretty crippling problem.

  Is the keyboard a USB keyboard?  If so, DDB would not work (without a
patch in some PR), but console switching might.  In any case, it might
help to try booting the install kernel -as and put root on the disk to
see if the kernel is causing the problem.

Matthew Orgass
darkstar@city-net.com