I have seen some comments about people complaining about FC5 installs
hanging on boot. I have not paid attention to it because I had other
worries.
Then I upgraded my home machine.
Booted the disc. It goes to the prompt and "hangs".
But it is not a hang. Took me about 30 seconds to realize that for some
reason the system was not seeing the USB keyboard. Once I put a ps/2
keyboard on the machine, everything worked fine.
The motherboard is an Intel P4 3ghz hyperthread. (Actually made by
Intel.) I don't have the model number at the moment. (It would require
opening it up.) 82875P is the chipset. Might be a clue. I can get more
details if anyone wants to track it down. (Answer off line as I get
drowned out by list mail and the filters hide a lot of it.)
When I can reboot and get into the BIOS, I will try to find out more. (I
have 2.4 gigs of updates to go!)
What is weird is that the BIOS reports "legacy keyboard" even if I have a
PS/2 keyboard plugged in. (And it works with the bios screen, so it knows
how to use it until it hits grub.)
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