[syslinux] pxelinux 4.04 - keyboard not working?

Gene Cumm gene.cumm at gmail.com
Tue Nov 22 03:05:13 PST 2011


On Nov 22, 2011 5:24 AM, "Per Jessen" <per at computer.org> wrote:
>
> Per Jessen 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.
> >
> >> 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've just now tried with 4.04 again - no input is accepted from the
> keyboard, after a few keystrokes, I get the buffer full beep.

Strange.

> Does the name of the file specified in the dhcp config matter:

No.

> filename "pxelinux.1"
>
> For testing, I used "pxelinux404.0".

--
-Gene



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