Dell Precision Workstation LiveCD boot menu selection problem

[Jeremy Katz]

On Thu, 2007-10-11 at 20:16 -0400, Michael Wiktowy wrote:
> Has anyone else been having problems with USB keyboards being dead
> during the boot menu when booting the f8test LiveCDs? I wrote up a
> bugzilla [1] a while ago but got no feedback.. I read LWNs interview
> with Matt Domsch today where he specifically states that Precision
> Workstations are targetted for Linux compatibility so it surprises me
> that this regression is unnoticed by anyone else.

Is there a BIOS update available for the box?  There have been a few
BIOS bugs which have interacted poorly with certain versions of syslinux

Jeremy