[syslinux] Dell and pxelinux keyboard problems

[Michael Redinger]

Hm, strange. We have quite a lot of them, too. I tried 4 different 
machines - same problem with all of them.

I will try to have somebody at Dell look at this and will tell you when 
I know more.

Thanks,
Michael

Matt Barbieri schrieb:
> I have many of those machines with A11 BIOS and they boot pxelinux with
> no problem and keyboard works as it should
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: syslinux-bounces at zytor.com [mailto:syslinux-bounces at zytor.com] On
> Behalf Of H. Peter Anvin
> Sent: Friday, February 02, 2007 12:57 PM
> To: Michael Redinger
> Cc: syslinux at zytor.com
> Subject: Re: [syslinux] Dell and pxelinux keyboard problems
> 
> 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
> 
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