Bug#538381: the same issue?

[Felix Zielcke]

Am Dienstag, den 15.09.2009, 21:20 -0400 schrieb Yaroslav Halchenko:
> interesting enough -- I came to this bug without looking for the bugs
> related to this particular laptop (Compaq Presario 2100), but that is
> what I have ;)
> 
> I was trying to reinstall the beast using daily d-i netinst images for
> squeeze.  In my case, system freezes after a second whenever installer
> menu appears.  If I fill keyboard buffer with a keystroke before menu
> appears, then menu reacts to the keypress (so if it was Enter -- it
> proceeds with installation, ie screen gets back to black), but
> nevertheless system freezes right away.
> 
> 
> Is there any way I could help troubleshooting the issue? may be I could
> test the last d-i image which was shipped without grub2 as the
> bootloader? what was it?
> 

d-i still doestn't use grub2 by default if you install stable or
testing. Only if you install unstable you can't get currently
grub-legacy.
Well the kFreeBSD ones use grub2 for booting d-i and also for the
installed system but I don't think you use that.

Anyway when forwarding this bug I forgot about our at_keyboard driver.
At the top of grub.cfg try:
insmod at_keyboard
terminal_input at_keyboard


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Felix Zielcke
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