Description of problem: Here at IBM we discover a bug related to the serial when using HMC as the interface. This bug afected the key responses in GRUB2. Ctrl keys (like up, down, left and right) wasn't working properly. Thanks to Vladimir (GRUB's maintainter), we solve the problem. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 2.00 beta How reproducible: Using HMC Steps to Reproduce: 1. grub-install /dev/sda1 in a HMC lpar 2. try to use the keys at the menu 3. Actual results: The keys doesn't work at all Expected results: The keys should work Additional info: The bug was already fixed and commited mainstream: http://bzr.savannah.gnu.org/lh/grub/trunk/grub/revision/4246 http://bzr.savannah.gnu.org/lh/grub/trunk/grub/revision/4247
These changes are "old" and should already be included in the grub2 versions used in Fedora. What problem do you see with which grub2 package?
The current grub2 package is using 2.00-beta4 (older then the fix). The beta5 includes this fix.
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