Gyorgy Jeney <nog.l...@gmail.com> writes: > On 24 November 2010 20:25, Ferenc Wagner <wf...@niif.hu> wrote: > >> 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?
That's the typo I left in accidentally to make your life harder. Sorry for that. (I was testing the above on a loop mount.) >> # 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. Looks like it actually tries to load the kernel. Could you please fully rewrite syslinux.cfg to contain only the following four lines and retest? default linux append initrd=initrd.gz prompt 1 timeout 50 This should skip the menu and also make the kernel more verbose. >> I wonder what the SYSLINUX banner says [...] > > SYSLINUX 4.02 debian-20101014 EDD Copyright (C) 1994-2010 H. Peter Anvin et al > > In both the partitionless and partitioned version. Thanks. So it uses the same disk access method (EDD) in both cases. -- Cheers, Feri. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
