[Mageia-dev] USB Keyboard disabled in current stage1

Tue Mar 19 17:15:28 CET 2013

'Twas brillig, and Frank Griffin at 19/03/13 15:25 did gyre and gimble:
+> On 03/18/2013 10:20 AM, Colin Guthrie wrote:
+>> '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.
+>> 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'.
+>>
+>>
+> Problem still present in last night's installer upload...
+
+Were you able to try Thierry's suggestion?
+
+I don't see any significant changes:
+http://svnweb.mageia.org/soft/drakx/trunk/mdk-stage1/?view=log
+
+So it would still be interesting to know if the commit he mentioned
+(http://svnweb.mageia.org/soft?view=revision&sortby=date&revision=7542)
+is the one to blame for this.
+
+
+Col
+
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