[syslinux] Debian bug#604245: Syslinux fails (does not receive key presses on Sony vaio Z12C5E)

[Gyorgy Jeney]

On 24 November 2010 21:54, Ferenc Wagner <wferi at niif.hu> wrote:
> Gyorgy Jeney <nog.lkml at gmail.com> writes:
>
>> On 24 November 2010 20:25, Ferenc Wagner <wferi at niif.hu> wrote:
>>> # sed -i '/^timeout/s/0/50/' /mnt/syslinux.cfg
>>> # umount /mnt
>>>
>>> and then try to boot the installer from the pendrive.  Now it should
>>> automatically choose the default item in the boot menu after 5 seconds
>>> (unless syslinux is actually frozen by this time).
>>
>> I tried that.  When the menu appears, at the bottom, it counts down 5,
>> 4, 3, 2, 1 and then reads something from the USB key for some time
>> (the activity light flashes on the key) and then just hangs at the
>> menu with the count being 1.  I waited about a minute before rebooting
>> at this point.
>
> Looks like it actually tries to load the kernel.  Could you please fully
> rewrite syslinux.cfg to contain only the following four lines and retest?
>
> default linux
> append initrd=initrd.gz
> prompt 1
> timeout 50
>
> This should skip the menu and also make the kernel more verbose.

This results in the following output:

SYSLINUX 4.02 debian-20101014 EDD Copyright (C) 1994-2010 H. Peter Anvin et al
Loading linux.....
Loading initrd.gz.......ready.

And then hangs.

nog.