"H. Peter Anvin" <h...@zytor.com> writes: > On 11/24/2010 07:34 AM, Ferenc Wagner wrote: > >> Syslinux certainly used to work partitionless. Maybe this feature was >> inadvertently lost during the major version change... Peter? > > It's possible... it's also possible there is something in memory which > looks like a partition handover table.
But would that have a fighting chance to break keyboard interaction only, after displaying a correct menu? 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 # 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). Independently of the above, I wonder what the SYSLINUX banner says if it's started partitionless (like above) or from a partition (like when you dumped it into /dev/sde1). In the working case it's easy to find out by quitting the menu via ESC then pressing Ctrl-V. It will probably print "SYSLINUX 4.02 debian-20101014 EDD Copyright ...". In the first, non-working case it's easiest to get this by renaming syslinux.cfg, so that it isn't found, thus the banner isn't overwritten by the menu. Maybe this unbreaks your keyboard, even... :) -- Thanks, Feri. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org