On 18 March 2013 15:20, Colin Guthrie <[email protected]> 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
