Description of problem: OK, so this is hard to assign to any specific component, so please feel free to reassign accordingly. Here's the description of the problem: Platform: Macbook Core 2 Duo Image: boot.iso Inserting the CD and booting from it hangs the computer at the point where the "Install/Rescue" menu is shown -- not always, but fairly consistently. I would estimate about 9 times out of 10. Eventually, if you do it enough times, it works, though I have not been able to figure out the precise sequence of events that prevents the lock-up. The symptoms are: the graphical menu is shown with 4 entries (install/reinstall/rescue, etc), but the computer does not respond to button presses. Waiting does not do anything -- only the power button helps. Able to reproduce: randomly, but very often.
This is somewhat likely to be a BIOS bug...
Note that it's unlikely related to rEFIt, as it shows the same behaviour whether I boot through rEFIt or directly by magically pressing "C".
Looks like this is previously reported in bug 227745 (which has a little bit more information). Duping over to there. One thing that will help post-test4 is that I fixed the timeout to actually work again. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 227745 ***
Hmm... Not sure that's correct. Theoretically, if it just ignores keyboard, it would auto-select the first option in 60 seconds and proceed. In my case, it just sits there forever.