Description of problem: When booting Dell Dimension E520 (and possibly others) using the Fedora 9 beta install DVD, they keyboard is initially not accessible. For example, the items in the first boot menu cannot be selected using the keyboard. After the first menu timeouts, the install proceeds normally. In the later stage the keyboard works just fine. The problem is that it is not possible make any other than the default choice in the initial boot menu. For example, memory test cannot be accessed. I think this happens with previous versions of Fedora as well so it is not specific to Fedora 9 beta. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual results: Expected results: Additional info:
IIRC, this is actually a BIOS bug that's fixed in a newer BIOS for that machine.
Changing version to '9' as part of upcoming Fedora 9 GA. More information and reason for this action is here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping
Can't fix a bios bug in syslinux