[syslinux] isolinux serial console keyboard issue

[Stephen Brown]

On Thu, 15 Jan 2004, Floriola wrote:

> During boot I am able see the syslinux boot prompt on
> the serial console *and* the monitor, but I can not
> use the console keyboard. I can only use the keyboard
> that is connected on the machine. After the kernel is
> loaded, the console keyboard starts working, but, this
> does not help me much, since I still need to use the
> keyboard before the linux kernel is loaded. Does
> anybody have any ideea what might be wrong?

If your BIOS (which controls the machine up until a boot loader --
isolinux, takes over) doesn't have an option to use a serial console,
you are out of luck.  Most don't.

Steve Brown
sbrown7 at umbc.edu