[syslinux] Dell and pxelinux keyboard problems

[H. Peter Anvin]

Michael Redinger wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am having trouble with one Dell system and pxelinux: The keyboard does
> not properly work.
> The computer boots, I press F12 to select the boot device, then I select
>  the network card. Up to that point the keyboard works fine.
> Then pxelinux is booted, and I use menu.c32 to display a menu (or
> vesamenu.c32 - same result). Now the keyboard does not work anymore ...
> 
> This is a Dell OptiPlex GX620 (with an USB keyboard). The problem only
> occurs with the latest BIOS, A11. I have tried both A07 (factory
> installed) and A10 - both work fine.
> On the Dell homepage I found the following information about this BIOS
> version:
> "Improve OROM shadowing into BIOS"
> 
> Could this be a pxelinux problem or do you (too) think that this is
> Dell's problem?

It probably is Dell touching memory they shouldn't be, but it's 
obviously not possible to diagnose at this distance.

Can you report this problem to Dell?

	-hpa