Syslinux - May 2003 - Isolinux serial console redirection issue

Hello all,

I'm trying to use the console to setup our cluster. In the past, we used a 
floppy and it worked just fine. We had to manually use the "ks="
argument.

Now, I actually see the "menu" on the serial console *and* the monitor
but I
can't use the keyboard. I can only use the keyboard that is connected on the
machine. Unplugging the keyboard doesn't help.

Here are the first few lines from the config file:

serial 0 115200
default serial
prompt 1
timeout 120
display boot.msg
F1 boot.msg
F2 install.msg

label serial
  kernel /isolinux/vmlinuz
  append initrd=initrd.img text console=tty0 console=ttyS0,115200n8

[....]

Now if I hit <enter> on the keyboard hooked to the machine, I'll
eventually
get a serial keyboard to work. But that won't solve my problem of not having
a keyboard working inside isolinux.

Anyone has/had a similar problem? Should this even work? Am I asking for a 
solution that doesn't even exist? :)

Please cc me as I don't monitor this list everyday.

Thanks!

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Super Leeet wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> I'm trying to use the console to setup our cluster. In the past, we
used
> a floppy and it worked just fine. We had to manually use the
"ks="
> argument.
> 
> Now, I actually see the "menu" on the serial console *and* the
monitor
> but I can't use the keyboard. I can only use the keyboard that is
> connected on the machine. Unplugging the keyboard doesn't help.
> 
> Here are the first few lines from the config file:
> 
> serial 0 115200
> default serial
> prompt 1
> timeout 120
> display boot.msg
> F1 boot.msg
> F2 install.msg
> 
> label serial
>  kernel /isolinux/vmlinuz
>  append initrd=initrd.img text console=tty0 console=ttyS0,115200n8
> 
> [....]
> 
Are you using a BIOS with "console redirection"?  If so, you must
*not*
use the "serial" option in syslinux.

	-hpa