On 24 November 2010 20:25, Ferenc Wagner <wf...@niif.hu> wrote: > "H. Peter Anvin" <h...@zytor.com> writes: > >> On 11/24/2010 07:34 AM, Ferenc Wagner wrote: >> >>> Syslinux certainly used to work partitionless. Maybe this feature was >>> inadvertently lost during the major version change... Peter? >> >> It's possible... it's also possible there is something in memory which >> looks like a partition handover table. > > But would that have a fighting chance to break keyboard interaction > only, after displaying a correct menu? > > György, could you please make sure that it's a keyboard issue only, for > example by introducing a short timeout by replacing "timeout 0" with > "timeout 50" in syslinux.cfg? If your pendrive is /dev/sde, then do > > # zcat boot.img.gz >/dev/sde > (just as you did originally, resulting in this bug report) > # mount /dev/sde /mnt -oloop
Just curious, is there a reason to use a loopback device here? > # sed -i '/^timeout/s/0/50/' /mnt/syslinux.cfg > # umount /mnt > > and then try to boot the installer from the pendrive. Now it should > automatically choose the default item in the boot menu after 5 seconds > (unless syslinux is actually frozen by this time). I tried that. When the menu appears, at the bottom, it counts down 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 and then reads something from the USB key for some time (the activity light flashes on the key) and then just hangs at the menu with the count being 1. I waited about a minute before rebooting at this point. > Independently of the above, I wonder what the SYSLINUX banner says if > it's started partitionless (like above) or from a partition (like when > you dumped it into /dev/sde1). In the working case it's easy to find > out by quitting the menu via ESC then pressing Ctrl-V. It will probably > print "SYSLINUX 4.02 debian-20101014 EDD Copyright ...". In the first, > non-working case it's easiest to get this by renaming syslinux.cfg, so > that it isn't found, thus the banner isn't overwritten by the menu. > Maybe this unbreaks your keyboard, even... :) There is a noticable delay between when the banner is displayed to when the menu appears, so it's easy to hit the pause key at that point. The banner reads: SYSLINUX 4.02 debian-20101014 EDD Copyright (C) 1994-2010 H. Peter Anvin et al In both the partitionless and partitioned version. nog. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
