[Mageia-dev] USB Keyboard disabled in current stage1

[Colin Guthrie]

'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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