[Techtalk] Re: Techtalk digest, Vol 1 #591 - LILO & keyboard woes

[Marian Routh]

On Sat June 29 2002 2:43 pm, techtalk-request at linuxchix.org wrote:

>    1. Re: LILO Not Taking Keyboard Input? (James)
>    2. Re: LILO Not Taking Keyboard Input? (Kai MacTane)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Sat, 29 Jun 2002 09:05:12 +0100 (BST)
> From: James <jas at spamcop.net>
> To: Kai MacTane <kmactane at GothPunk.com>
> Cc: techtalk at linuxchix.org
> Subject: Re: [Techtalk] LILO Not Taking Keyboard Input?
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> On Fri, 28 Jun 2002, Kai MacTane wrote:
> > Hi there. I've got a Slackware 8.0 system with lilo 21.7-5 on a
> > homebrewed Pentium 133. When I boot the machine, LILO appears to
> > work normally... as long as you don't try hitting "Tab" for a menu
> > of available kernels to boot. If you do give it keyboard input, of
> > any type, it seems to just silently ignore it.
> >
> > Does anyone know what might be causing this? Thansk in advance.
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> USB keyboard? I see exactly the same results with my laptop: LILO
> accesses the keyboard via the BIOS, which doesn't support USB
> keyboards, only the internal one.
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> James.
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> Date: Sat, 29 Jun 2002 10:29:19 -0700
> To: techtalk at linuxchix.org
> From: Kai MacTane <kmactane at GothPunk.com>
> Subject: Re: [Techtalk] LILO Not Taking Keyboard Input?
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> At 6/29/02 01:05 AM , James wrote:
> > > Does anyone know what might be causing this? Thansk in advance.
> >
> >USB keyboard? I see exactly the same results with my laptop: LILO
> > accesses the keyboard via the BIOS, which doesn't support USB
> > keyboards, only the internal one.
>
> Oops, sorry, I should have specified that this system has an AT
> keyboard. I think this motherboard predates the existence of the USB
> spec; there are certainly no USB connectors anywhere on this system.
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>                                                  --Kai MacTane

Kai - Try swapping out the keyboard.  It may just be getting old and the 
signal erratic.

Cheers,

Malke
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