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libellous
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 Posted: Sun Mar 06, 2005 12:10 pm Post subject: keyboard doesn't work when netbooting on indy |
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Hiya,
Dunno whether this one is hardware or software... maybe someone has seen it before.
I am attempting to netboot my Indy into gentoo - (have done netbooting before with x86, sparc etc). The machine takes up the file, executes, then instructs me to press enter. I press enter, nothing happens. The keyboard does not respond. I can't even get the caps lock light to come on.
There's clearly nothing particularly wrong with the keyboard or the controller as I obviously just 'bootp():'d the machine with it!
Any ideas?
Thanks,
Reuben |
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thebigslide
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| Posted: Sun Mar 06, 2005 12:34 pm Post subject: |
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| You bootp'd from the prom. Once the linux kernel loads, AFAIK, there's no more support for the k/b or mouse. You'll have to use a serial console. |
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libellous
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| Posted: Sun Mar 06, 2005 12:50 pm Post subject: |
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in the interim, i tried a debian image which crashed, and an older gentoo image (2004.02.10-0 .
This one gives me keyboard control back!
however, every time i press tab it blanks all the text on the screen except the cursor! it comes back again when i type but it gave me a shock the first time. |
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libellous
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| just in case it comes in userful for anyone in the future: after using the older tftp image to get past the no keyboard problem, I couldn't get it to untar a portage tree as it claimed it wasn't in the correct format (tried with four different files). A quick did the trick. |
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Redhatter
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Okay, a number of people have had this problem -- it seems it's a bug in the latest netboot image that causes the keyboard to not function.
We're aware of the problem, and it has been reported as bug #84358. We will post any news about the bug there.
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Gentoo/MIPS Cobalt developer, Mozilla herd member. |
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libellous
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| Posted: Sun Mar 13, 2005 9:38 am Post subject: |
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| Redhatter wrote: | Okay, a number of people have had this problem -- it seems it's a bug in the latest netboot image that causes the keyboard to not function.
We're aware of the problem, and it has been reported as bug #84358. We will post any news about the bug there. |
Many thanks for the fix - works beautifully! |
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