From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Konqueror/3.3; Linux) (KHTML, like Gecko) Description of problem: Using an IBM x445 w/ RSA2, after installing RHAS 2.1 (this problem has been seen w/ U4, U5, and U6 beta), grub does not respond to the USB keyboard. This looks to be the same issue as the RH7.2 bug #64684 http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=64684 Using the grub 0.93 packages linked from that bug resolved this issue. This issue is also not seen w/ RHEL3.0 Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): grub-0.90-11 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install RHAS 2.1 on x445 w/ RSA2 using only USB keyboard 2. Wait for grub menu 3. Try pressing keyboard to select alternate kernel Actual Results: No response to keyboard input Expected Results: Grub responds to keyboard input Additional info: This does not seem to affect x445s w/ RSA1
Due to the way the grub package works, this can't really have much of anything done with it in the way of an update as getting the actual bits for the boot sector installed automatically on an upgrade is essentially impossible. Also, the risk of regressions on hardware which has worked thus far is too great for changing something as critical as the boot loader this late in the life of RHEL 2.1.
Not sure I followed that first bit. How is it impossible to upgrade grub? Installing the grub 0.93 packages (I believe they're rh7.2 packages) does seem to fix the problem. I could understand the hesitancy to change anything so late, but this is affecting a customer, so might you reconsider? Should I open an issue tracker entry instead?