[Mageia-dev] USB Keyboard disabled in current stage1

Mon Mar 18 17:43:50 CET 2013

On 18 March 2013 15:20, Colin Guthrie <mageia at colin.guthr.ie> wrote:
+>> 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.
+
+I doub that since we've stage1 with kernel-3.8 since Feb 28
+
+> I don't know the setup with stage1 enough to know if this is where the
+> problem lies or not tho'.
+
+This _could_ be this commit:
+http://svnweb.mageia.org/soft?view=revision&sortby=date&revision=7542
+
+You could try:
+- rebuilding drakx-installer-stage1 with reverting this commit,
+- rebuilding drakx-installer-images with new drakx-installer-stage1
+- then boot the new boot.iso or vmlinuz+all.rdz
+