Comment 14 for bug 35530

Me too. I tried out the Tribe 4 and Tribe 5 releases, and the keyboard is non-responsive at the boot menu; as described above. The same CDs boot just fine on other machines.

Hardware is a Dell XPS410N (Ubuntu pre-installed), with BIOS revision 2.4.2. Someday soon I'll work up the courage to flash the BIOS to the latest rev (2.5.1), which I expect will effect a cure. What's strange is that the standard 7.04 CD works as expected, as does Knoppix 5.something. Perhaps something in SYSLINUX has changed?

For the time being, holding down the shift key while booting is an effective workaround.

(see also Mandriva bug 31360)