USB keyboard not available at 7.10 Beta LiveCD boot menu

[Ridgeland]

Just downloaded and tried the 7.10 Beta Live CD desktop i386
My Dell-Ubuntu E520n has only a USB keyboard. The boot menu ignores the keyboard until X loads.
SuSE 10.2 and Mandravia 2007 have this problem.
For some good clues see Mandriva threads:
http://mandrivausers.org/index.php?showtopic=42341
http://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=31630
SuSE forums also discuss this problem.
Ubuntu 7.04 does not have this problem, new to 7.10 Beta.

[Laubstein (laubstein)]

I have this problem too (no keyboard available at 7.10 Beta LiveCD boot menu... until X loads)

My computer is a "Dell Dimension 5150 N-series".

"Ubuntu 7.04 does not have this problem, new to 7.10 Beta." (for me too)

info about keyboard:
# hwinfo
>> usb.2: usb
usb device: name = 1-2:1.0
    path = /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb1/1-2/1-2:1.0
    modalias = "usb:v413Cp2005d0105dc00dsc00dp00ic03isc01ip01"
    bInterfaceNumber = 0
    bInterfaceClass = 3
    bInterfaceSubClass = 1
    bInterfaceProtocol = 1
    if: 1-2:1.0 @ /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb1/1-2
    bDeviceClass = 0
    bDeviceSubClass = 0
    bDeviceProtocol = 0
    idVendor = 0x413c
    idProduct = 0x2005
    manufacturer = "DELL"
    product = "DELL USB Keyboard"
    bcdDevice = 0105
    speed = "1.5"
----- /proc/bus/input/devices -----
  I: Bus=0003 Vendor=413c Product=2005 Version=0110
  N: Name="DELL DELL USB Keyboard"
  P: Phys=usb-0000:00:1d.0-2/input0
  S: Sysfs=/class/input/input3
  H: Handlers=kbd event1
  B: EV=120003
  B: KEY=10000 7 ff87207a c14057ff febeffdf ffefffff ffffffff fffffffe
  B: LED=7

[Phillip Susi (psusi)]

This is a configuration error with the system bios not having USB keyboard support enabled.