[syslinux] isolinux serial console keyboard issue

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Thu Jan 15 10:12:00 PST 2004


Floriola wrote:
> Hello list,
> 
> I am trying to use the console to setup my machine.
> 
> 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?
> 

Most likely your terminal program has flow control turned on, and since 
you didn't configure flow control in your configuration file, syslinux 
never enables it.

	-hpa




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