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 wrote: > Gyorgy Jeney writes: > >> On 24 November 2010 21:54, Ferenc Wagner wrote: >> >>> Gyorgy Jeney writes: >>> On 24 November 2010 20:25, Ferenc Wagner wrote: > # sed -i '/^timeout/s/0/50/' /mnt/syslinux.cfg > # umount /mnt >>>

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 writes: > On 24 November 2010 21:54, Ferenc Wagner wrote: > >> Gyorgy Jeney writes: >> >>> On 24 November 2010 20:25, Ferenc Wagner wrote: >>> # sed -i '/^timeout/s/0/50/' /mnt/syslinux.cfg # umount /mnt and then try to boot the installer from the pendrive.  No

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 wrote: > Gyorgy Jeney writes: > >> On 24 November 2010 20:25, Ferenc Wagner wrote: >>> # 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 t

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 wrote: > On 23 November 2010 23:52, Gene Cumm wrote: >> On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 14:48, Gyorgy Jeney 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 >>> /de

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 writes: > On 24 November 2010 20:25, Ferenc Wagner 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 /dev/sde, then do >> >

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 wrote: > "H. Peter Anvin" 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

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" 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 l

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 wrote: > Gyorgy Jeney writes: > >> On 22 November 2010 22:46, Ferenc Wagner wrote: >> >>> "H. Peter Anvin" 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,

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 Ferenc Wagner
Gyorgy Jeney writes: > On 22 November 2010 22:46, Ferenc Wagner wrote: > >> "H. Peter Anvin" 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 versio

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 wrote: > On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 14:48, Gyorgy Jeney 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 partition was created, an appropriat

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 wrote: > On 22 November 2010 22:46, Ferenc Wagner wrote: >> "H. Peter Anvin" 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 >> i

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 wrote: > "H. Peter Anvin" 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? I checked out

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" 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 http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/util

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" 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 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 h

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" 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 "US