Bug#604245: [syslinux] Debian bug#604245: Syslinux fails (does not receive key presses on Sony vaio Z12C5E)

2010-11-25 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Gyorgy Jeney nog.l...@gmail.com writes: On 24 November 2010 21:54, Ferenc Wagner wf...@niif.hu wrote: Gyorgy Jeney nog.l...@gmail.com writes: On 24 November 2010 20:25, Ferenc Wagner wf...@niif.hu wrote: # sed -i '/^timeout/s/0/50/' /mnt/syslinux.cfg # umount /mnt and then try to boot

Bug#604245: [syslinux] Debian bug#604245: Syslinux fails (does not receive key presses on Sony vaio Z12C5E)

2010-11-25 Thread Gene Cumm
On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 10:58, Ferenc Wagner wf...@niif.hu wrote: Gyorgy Jeney nog.l...@gmail.com writes: On 24 November 2010 21:54, Ferenc Wagner wf...@niif.hu wrote: Gyorgy Jeney nog.l...@gmail.com writes: On 24 November 2010 20:25, Ferenc Wagner wf...@niif.hu wrote: # sed -i

Bug#604245: [syslinux] Debian bug#604245: Syslinux fails (does not receive key presses on Sony vaio Z12C5E)

2010-11-24 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Gyorgy Jeney nog.l...@gmail.com writes: On 22 November 2010 22:46, Ferenc Wagner wf...@niif.hu wrote: H. Peter Anvin h...@zytor.com writes: For a regression... I really need it narrowed down... 3.71 to 4.02 is a huge change. That's of course true.  György, are you willing to test some

Bug#604245: [syslinux] Debian bug#604245: Syslinux fails (does not receive key presses on Sony vaio Z12C5E)

2010-11-24 Thread H. Peter Anvin
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.

Bug#604245: [syslinux] Debian bug#604245: Syslinux fails (does not receive key presses on Sony vaio Z12C5E)

2010-11-24 Thread Gyorgy Jeney
On 24 November 2010 16:34, Ferenc Wagner wf...@niif.hu wrote: Gyorgy Jeney nog.l...@gmail.com writes: On 22 November 2010 22:46, Ferenc Wagner wf...@niif.hu wrote: H. Peter Anvin h...@zytor.com writes: For a regression... I really need it narrowed down... 3.71 to 4.02 is a huge change.

Bug#604245: [syslinux] Debian bug#604245: Syslinux fails (does not receive key presses on Sony vaio Z12C5E)

2010-11-24 Thread Ferenc Wagner
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

Bug#604245: [syslinux] Debian bug#604245: Syslinux fails (does not receive key presses on Sony vaio Z12C5E)

2010-11-24 Thread Gyorgy Jeney
On 24 November 2010 20:25, Ferenc Wagner wf...@niif.hu wrote: 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

Bug#604245: [syslinux] Debian bug#604245: Syslinux fails (does not receive key presses on Sony vaio Z12C5E)

2010-11-24 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Gyorgy Jeney nog.l...@gmail.com writes: On 24 November 2010 20:25, Ferenc Wagner wf...@niif.hu wrote: 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

Bug#604245: [syslinux] Debian bug#604245: Syslinux fails (does not receive key presses on Sony vaio Z12C5E)

2010-11-24 Thread Gene Cumm
On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 02:49, Gyorgy Jeney nog.l...@gmail.com wrote: On 23 November 2010 23:52, Gene Cumm gene.c...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 14:48, Gyorgy Jeney nog.l...@gmail.com wrote: But then I noticed that I wasn't following the (debian) instructions properly and I was

Bug#604245: [syslinux] Debian bug#604245: Syslinux fails (does not receive key presses on Sony vaio Z12C5E)

2010-11-24 Thread Gyorgy Jeney
On 24 November 2010 21:54, Ferenc Wagner wf...@niif.hu wrote: Gyorgy Jeney nog.l...@gmail.com writes: On 24 November 2010 20:25, Ferenc Wagner wf...@niif.hu wrote: # sed -i '/^timeout/s/0/50/' /mnt/syslinux.cfg # umount /mnt and then try to boot the installer from the pendrive.  Now it

Bug#604245: [syslinux] Debian bug#604245: Syslinux fails (does not receive key presses on Sony vaio Z12C5E)

2010-11-23 Thread Gyorgy Jeney
On 22 November 2010 22:46, Ferenc Wagner wf...@niif.hu wrote: H. Peter Anvin h...@zytor.com writes: For a regression... I really need it narrowed down... 3.71 to 4.02 is a huge change. That's of course true.  György, are you willing to test some intermediate syslinux versions on this

Bug#604245: [syslinux] Debian bug#604245: Syslinux fails (does not receive key presses on Sony vaio Z12C5E)

2010-11-23 Thread Gene Cumm
On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 14:48, Gyorgy Jeney nog.l...@gmail.com wrote: On 22 November 2010 22:46, Ferenc Wagner wf...@niif.hu wrote: H. Peter Anvin h...@zytor.com writes: For a regression... I really need it narrowed down... 3.71 to 4.02 is a huge change. That's of course true.  György, are

Bug#604245: [syslinux] Debian bug#604245: Syslinux fails (does not receive key presses on Sony vaio Z12C5E)

2010-11-23 Thread Gyorgy Jeney
On 23 November 2010 23:52, Gene Cumm gene.c...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 14:48, Gyorgy Jeney nog.l...@gmail.com wrote: But then I noticed that I wasn't following the (debian) instructions properly and I was writing the image to /dev/sde, instead of /dev/sde1.  As soon as a

Bug#604245: [syslinux] Debian bug#604245: Syslinux fails (does not receive key presses on Sony vaio Z12C5E)

2010-11-22 Thread Ferenc Wagner
H. Peter Anvin h...@zytor.com writes: On 11/21/2010 12:31 PM, Ferenc Wagner wrote: Does this report ring a bell here? I didn't check, but the image should carry an isohybridized 4.02 version of isolinux. The working (lenny) version is 3.71. This often happens when the BIOS doesn't have

Bug#604245: [syslinux] Debian bug#604245: Syslinux fails (does not receive key presses on Sony vaio Z12C5E)

2010-11-22 Thread H. Peter Anvin
On 11/21/2010 12:31 PM, Ferenc Wagner wrote: Hi, Does this report ring a bell here? I didn't check, but the image should carry an isohybridized 4.02 version of isolinux. The working (lenny) version is 3.71. Thanks, Feri. This often happens when the BIOS doesn't have USB

Bug#604245: [syslinux] Debian bug#604245: Syslinux fails (does not receive key presses on Sony vaio Z12C5E)

2010-11-22 Thread H. Peter Anvin
On 11/22/2010 09:24 AM, Ferenc Wagner wrote: H. Peter Anvin h...@zytor.com writes: On 11/21/2010 12:31 PM, Ferenc Wagner wrote: Does this report ring a bell here? I didn't check, but the image should carry an isohybridized 4.02 version of isolinux. The working (lenny) version is 3.71.

Bug#604245: [syslinux] Debian bug#604245: Syslinux fails (does not receive key presses on Sony vaio Z12C5E)

2010-11-22 Thread Ferenc Wagner
H. Peter Anvin h...@zytor.com writes: For a regression... I really need it narrowed down... 3.71 to 4.02 is a huge change. That's of course true. György, are you willing to test some intermediate syslinux versions on this machine? They are distributed precompiled at