[syslinux] syslinux 3.61 keyboard not responding issue

[Thompson, Roland G]

System is:
	Dell OptiPlex GX620 w/Intel Pentium D
	BIOS version is A11 (latest available)

Yes, if I hold down shift key before syslinux boots I get a boot:
command prompt and I can type at it.

Would it make any difference to update to syslinux 3.62 since it was
just released?

Thanks,
Roland.....


-----Original Message-----
From: syslinux-bounces at zytor.com [mailto:syslinux-bounces at zytor.com] On
Behalf Of H. Peter Anvin
Sent: Saturday, March 01, 2008 5:16 PM
To: For discussion of SYSLINUX and tftp-hpa
Subject: Re: [syslinux] syslinux 3.61 keyboard not responding issue

Thompson, Roland G wrote:
> Has anyone experienced the following issue and / or direct me to a 
> solution.
> 
> I install syslinux v3.61 onto my USB boot device.  When I boot that 
> USB device the keyboard does not respond at the syslinux menu.  So I 
> either have to power cycle the system to reboot or wait until the 
> default menu action (boot into UBCD4Win) occurs before I can use the
keyboard.
> 
> I am using syslinux-3.61 on a WinXP system to build a bootable USB key

> and a bootable USB HDD.  On both USB devices I had UBCD4Win installed 
> and working.  That is, before I install syslinux (using w32
> syslinux.exe) I can boot from the USB device into UBCD4Win.  More 
> importantly, the keyboard does respond during this initial boot 
> process
> - i.e. I can do a C-A-D to interrupt the boot and/or UBCD4Win load 
> process.  Once I install syslinux the keyboard longer works - at the 
> syslinux or even until UBCD4Win is almost completely loaded.
> 

Could you give as much details as possible about your BIOS and the rest
of your system?

This is a particularly interesting bug report, because it only happens
to syslinux, which means it might be resolvable.  Something that would
be interesting is knowing the following: if you hold down the Shift key
before syslinux boot:

a) do you get to a command prompt?
b) can you type at the command prompt?

	-hpa

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