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From: Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org>
To: Gentoo Users List <gentoo-user@l.g.o>
Subject: [gentoo-user] No keyboard at LILO menu when re-booting kernel 5.4.80-r1
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2021 09:02:59
Message-Id: YAfxrDEqNY5BCk3G@waltdnes.org
1 I keep two kernels around.
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3 * "Production" (currently 4.19.57)
4 * "Experimental" (currently 5.4.80-r1)
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6 I updated "Experimental" to 5.4.80-r1 as part of my recent "world"
7 update. The problem is as follows...
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9 * if I reboot from 4.19.57, the keyboard is fully functional at the LILO
10 menu.
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12 * if I reboot from 5.4.80-r1, the keyboard is dead at the LILO menu. The
13 menu times out and boots the first choice (Production, i.e. 4.19.57).
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15 Rebooting from the "Production" kernel allows me to scroll down at the
16 LILO menu to select "Experimental". Or I can run "lilo -R Experimental"
17 at the commandline to tell the system to skip the LILO menu, and go
18 directly to the "Experimental" kernel at the next reboot. I use
19 "uname -r" to check which kernel I've booted to. 5.4.80-r1 seems to be
20 running fine so far, except for the dead keyboard at the LILO menu.
21 This email is coming from 5.4.80-r1. Any ideas?
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24 Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org>
25 I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications