Syslinux - Feb 2008 - syslinux 3.61 keyboard not responding issue

Has anyone experienced the following issue and / or direct me to a
solution.

I install syslinux v3.61 onto my USB boot device.  When I boot that USB
device the keyboard does not respond at the syslinux menu.  So I either
have to power cycle the system to reboot or wait until the default menu
action (boot into UBCD4Win) occurs before I can use the keyboard.

I am using syslinux-3.61 on a WinXP system to build a bootable USB key
and a bootable USB HDD.  On both USB devices I had UBCD4Win installed
and working.  That is, before I install syslinux (using w32
syslinux.exe) I can boot from the USB device into UBCD4Win.  More
importantly, the keyboard does respond during this initial boot process
- i.e. I can do a C-A-D to interrupt the boot and/or UBCD4Win load
process.  Once I install syslinux the keyboard longer works - at the
syslinux or even until UBCD4Win is almost completely loaded.

Thanks, Ro

Thompson, Roland G wrote:
> Has anyone experienced the following issue and / or direct me to a
> solution.
> 
> I install syslinux v3.61 onto my USB boot device.  When I boot that USB
> device the keyboard does not respond at the syslinux menu.  So I either
> have to power cycle the system to reboot or wait until the default menu
> action (boot into UBCD4Win) occurs before I can use the keyboard.
> 
> I am using syslinux-3.61 on a WinXP system to build a bootable USB key
> and a bootable USB HDD.  On both USB devices I had UBCD4Win installed
> and working.  That is, before I install syslinux (using w32
> syslinux.exe) I can boot from the USB device into UBCD4Win.  More
> importantly, the keyboard does respond during this initial boot process
> - i.e. I can do a C-A-D to interrupt the boot and/or UBCD4Win load
> process.  Once I install syslinux the keyboard longer works - at the
> syslinux or even until UBCD4Win is almost completely loaded.
> 
Could you give as much details as possible about your BIOS and the rest 
of your system?

This is a particularly interesting bug report, because it only happens 
to syslinux, which means it might be resolvable.  Something that would 
be interesting is knowing the following: if you hold down the Shift key 
before syslinux boot:

a) do you get to a command prompt?
b) can you type at the command prompt?

	-hpa

System is:
	Dell OptiPlex GX620 w/Intel Pentium D
	BIOS version is A11 (latest available)

Yes, if I hold down shift key before syslinux boots I get a boot:
command prompt and I can type at it.

Would it make any difference to update to syslinux 3.62 since it was
just released?

Thanks,
Roland.....


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Sent: Saturday, March 01, 2008 5:16 PM
To: For discussion of SYSLINUX and tftp-hpa
Subject: Re: [syslinux] syslinux 3.61 keyboard not responding issue

Thompson, Roland G wrote:
> Has anyone experienced the following issue and / or direct me to a 
> solution.
> 
> I install syslinux v3.61 onto my USB boot device.  When I boot that 
> USB device the keyboard does not respond at the syslinux menu.  So I 
> either have to power cycle the system to reboot or wait until the 
> default menu action (boot into UBCD4Win) occurs before I can use the
keyboard.
> 
> I am using syslinux-3.61 on a WinXP system to build a bootable USB key
> and a bootable USB HDD.  On both USB devices I had UBCD4Win installed 
> and working.  That is, before I install syslinux (using w32
> syslinux.exe) I can boot from the USB device into UBCD4Win.  More 
> importantly, the keyboard does respond during this initial boot 
> process
> - i.e. I can do a C-A-D to interrupt the boot and/or UBCD4Win load 
> process.  Once I install syslinux the keyboard longer works - at the 
> syslinux or even until UBCD4Win is almost completely loaded.
> 
Could you give as much details as possible about your BIOS and the rest
of your system?

This is a particularly interesting bug report, because it only happens
to syslinux, which means it might be resolvable.  Something that would
be interesting is knowing the following: if you hold down the Shift key
before syslinux boot:

a) do you get to a command prompt?
b) can you type at the command prompt?

	-hpa

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you should try the latest version which is 3.62

On 04/03/2008, poorani <poorani at maniindiatech.com>
wrote:
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> hi
>
>   I have tried to compile syslinux with MinGw.I have already installed the
> nasm also.I cant compile a new version.If I am using make -i, the old
> version was build with success.I cant compile new (3.51) with MinGW.
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I have tried with syslinux 3.62 also.it didnt complie


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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "poorani" <poorani at maniindiatech.com>
To: "For discussion of SYSLINUX and tftp-hpa" <syslinux at
zytor.com>
Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2008 2:35 PM
> Subject: Re: [syslinux] syslinux compilation using mingw in windows
>
>
> I have tried with syslinux 3.62 also.it didnt complie
>
Did you read doc/distrib.doc?
You may not need to compile entirely syslinux and usually this is enought
      make clean
      make installer


Wich nasm version did you use?

README file state that nasm version 0.98.39 or later is needed on linux.

Version 2.02 is available.



Gilles







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