[Fwd: Re: [syslinux] etherboot 5.3.14 and pxelinux keyboard problem]

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Wed Mar 16 17:43:09 PST 2005


Quinn wrote:
>  I did some more testing with the code and have narrowed 
> the problem down.  Up until pxelinux.0-2.08-pre6 - the keyboard is 
> responsive when booted via etherboot.  pxelinux.0-2.08-pre7 and up start 
> having the keyboard lockup problem.
> 
> Here is a diff file of the changes between pxelinux.0-2.08-pre6 and 
> pxelinux.0-2.08-pre7: 

Okay, this is weird.  There is nothing in this code *at all* that would 
cause this kind of problems.  Michael, does Etherboot muck with the
18.2 Hz BIOS timer interrupt at all?

	-hpa




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