On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 02:18:33PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> O> At that point, after the installer's vmlinux has been
> > booted, the keystrokes on the usb keyboard are not
> > recognized when attempting to select the installation
> > media check options. This is quite odd because the
> > same usb keyboard is usable earlier in the installation
>
> Odd it may see but not unexpected. Until the kernel loads the BIOS is
> doing emulation of a PC keyboard via USB. After the kernel USB loads the
> OS takes over control. If that fails you have a problem.
>
> > Is there any workaround for this (as the Sun workstation
> > only has usb ports for keyboard and mouse) short of
> > waiting for Fedora 14?
>
> I guess a serial or vnc based network install might be helpful for
> debugging but hardly useful for production.
>
> Try booting with the option "irqpoll" just in case the USB stuff is
> having interrupt problems.
Alan,
I turns out that I have to resort to acpi=off for the usb keyboard
to be usable in the media check screen.
Jack
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