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Jason Thomas |
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address@hidden: Bug#139774: grub: GRUB hangs until keyboard is plugged in] |
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Tue, 2 Apr 2002 09:01:58 +1000 |
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any advice for this one. I have a bunch of boxes here that work fine
with no keyboard.
Thanks.
----- Forwarded message from Zinx Verituse <address@hidden> -----
> Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2002 17:32:29 -0600
> From: Zinx Verituse <address@hidden>
> To: Debian Bug Tracking System <address@hidden>
> Subject: Bug#139774: grub: GRUB hangs until keyboard is plugged in
>
> Package: grub
> Version: 0.91-2
> Severity: normal
>
> I'm trying to boot GRUB without a keyboard, and it's hanging
> after displaying 'GRUB loading, please wait...' (The stage 1.5
> is loaded at this point, the stage2 is presumably loading).
>
> If I insert the keyboard while it's hung, it will continue
> normally.
>
> lilo doesn't have this problem, but I don't like lilo.
>
> Linux doesn't lock trying to access the keyboard either,
> though it does say it timed out trying to talk with it a few
> times during the boot sequence, before the init scripts.
>
> This is rather important to me at the moment, as I don't want
> to have to plug a keyboard in to this box every time I need
> to boot it :)
>
> Other things of interest:
> This is running on a M919 motherboard (w/ non-flashable BIOS,
> dated 1996), with a 133MHz AMD 5x86, and 32mb of RAM.
> The keyboard is AT-style, in case that makes a difference.
>
>
> The B: floppy light (a 5.25") stays on until GRUB is started,
> where it then switches to the A: floppy (a 3.5").
>
> The A: floppy light stays on until stage2 is loaded (i think,
> i wasn't paying much attention.. it's off now.)
>
> I don't really think the floppy lights matter... just interesting
> to note ;)
>
> -- System Information
> Debian Release: 3.0
> Architecture: i386
> Kernel: Linux obsolesence 2.4.18-pcsp #3 Sat Mar 23 22:22:14 CST 2002 i486
> Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C
>
> Versions of packages grub depends on:
> ii libc6 2.2.5-3 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
> an
> ii libncurses5 5.2.20020112a-5 Shared libraries for terminal
> hand
>
>
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