[syslinux] pxelinux 4.04 - keyboard not working?

Gene Cumm gene.cumm at gmail.com
Tue Nov 22 02:37:55 PST 2011


On Nov 22, 2011 5:03 AM, "Per Jessen" <per at computer.org> wrote:
>
> Gene Cumm wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 06:09, Per Jessen <per at computer.org> wrote:
> >> I tried moving up to 4.04 this weekend - seemed to work fine, except
> >> that the keyboard didn't work (for selecting what to boot). I went
> >> back to 3.86 instead, which worked fine.  Anything special about 4.04
> >> in this respect?
> >
> > Nope.
> >
> > 1) Could you describe the hardware?  Make/model and BIOS revision?
>
> HP DL380G3, bios P29.  PS/2 keyboard.

Thanks.  I've seen issues occasionally with USB devices on specific
machines.  I presume the latest BIOS rev?

> > 2) Are you using (vesa)menu.c32 at all?  If so, have you tried
> > without?
>
> No menus, just plain text with a one line prompt.

I presume no directive that changes the behavior like SERIAL or CONSOLE?
Enabled console redirection over serial in the BIOS?  Using the physical
console or iLO?

--
-Gene



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