usb keyboard drivers should be loaded before keyboard input is required

[Alexander Finger]

When installing on a 128MB-iMac (1st gen), I get a low memory warning.
This low memory warning requires keystroke confirmation.
But (usb) keyboard drivers are note yet loaded, so the installation is deadlocked.

[Matt Zimmerman (mdz)]

I don't think that 128M should require a lowmem install. Are you able to boot
the live CD, or another Linux environment? What do you see in /proc/meminfo?

[Matt Zimmerman (mdz)]

Please respond

[Alexander Finger (af)]

(In reply to comment #1)
> I don't think that 128M should require a lowmem install. Are you able to boot
> the live CD, or another Linux environment? What do you see in /proc/meminfo?

Unfortunately, I don't even get to the point of having a shell; the nasty bit is
that the Lowmem-warning Dialog pops up before the usb drivers are loaded.

I will try to get hold of a live iso image next week and give it a try.

Still - it would be done with changing order of things in the inst. procedure.

rgds
af

[Alexander Lindert (kleinalex)]

not only for MacPC's impossible, also for P400 celeron 1GB Harddisk

[Dennis Kaarsemaker (dennis)]

Does this bug still occur in Breezy?

[Tor Harald Thorland (linux-strigen)]

It's been a verry long time since something has happend on this bug....
Has something happend with it? Can it still be confirmed?

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

Although the low memory warning will no longer pop up with 128MB (so I predict that the original reporter will not be able to reproduce the bug with Dapper directly), it may still be reproducible when booting with the 'mem=32M' kernel option.

Looking at the code, USB modules *should* be loaded before the lowmem warning, so perhaps the real problem is that the kernel can't drive your USB keyboard, which might in turn be due to incorrect BIOS settings.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

(Er. Or substitute Open Firmware where I said BIOS, perhaps ...)

[Albrecht Mühlenschulte (a7p)]

Is this problem still present in Edgy Eft?

[Albrecht Mühlenschulte (a7p)]

No activity on this report for the last 4 month -> considered fixed -> rejected

Feel free to reopen it, if it is still an issue with feisty.