[Mageia-dev] USB Keyboard disabled in current stage1

Mon Mar 18 15:20:56 CET 2013

'Twas brillig, and Frank Griffin at 18/03/13 13:49 did gyre and gimble:
+> Trying a fresh install this morning (booting isolinux from grub), the
+> "select your install type" curses menu comes up, but the keyboard is
+> completely unresponsive.  There's no problem with the keyboard itself,
+> as it worked fine to navigate the grub menu to select isolinux.
+> 
+> Isolinux gives the normal "Detecting USB devices" popup, but I suspect
+> that it's not working, as the keyboard is USB.  This is reinforced by
+> the fact that the keyboard works perfectly booting the same isolinux in
+> a VirtualBox VM.
+> 
+> This was working OK on Mar 11 afternoon EST when I did the last install
+> on this box.
+
+Perhaps stage1 is missing some kernel modules now that usb support on
+recent kernels split them up a bit.
+
+Here is the fix for that in dracut:
+http://git.kernel.org/cgit/boot/dracut/dracut.git/commit/?id=a28e2aeefec38f9118f36b3324e44d6a7d4fda7c
+
+I don't know the setup with stage1 enough to know if this is where the
+problem lies or not tho'.
+
+Col
+
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+Colin Guthrie
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