I have this old Dell Inspiron 2650 with a dual boot Fedora 12 and XP and I want to upgrade Fedora to 20. When I boot from the installation dvd I get this message:
[ 13.167548] i8042: Can't read CTR while initializing i8042 then it continues to boot and I get to the first installer screen (welcome to Fedora 20, select language) but as one might expect, I can't select anything neither with the mouse nor with the keyboard. I get the exact message when I try to boot up Fedora 12 and I have the exact problem, neither mouse nor keyboard works. They work before booting up Fedora (e.g. in the bios) and also in XP, so it's not (entirely) a hardware problem. I don't remember if it ever worked in F12, but at least I was obviously able to install it. I did do a google search on this and some posts said it's a false, inconsequential error, others provided kernel patches, others messed with the bios. Only thing I can do in the bios is change the boot order, set the time and disable the parallel port. Any suggestions? Some kernel options? Thanks! -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
