[ale] Boot issues

[Jim Kinney]

you need a fan cover like the big semi trucks use in the cold weather :-)

On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 12:04 PM, Scott Castaline <skotchman at gmail.com>wrote:

> On 12/01/2010 11:04 AM, Jim Kinney wrote:
> > when you get the OS screen where you need to enter stuff, quickly
> > unplug and replug the USB keyboard. I have a RHEL5 system that looses
> > the keyboard half the time due to a kernel buglet in the usb
> > activation process at bootup. That notification from the hardware
> > seems to tell the kernel "HEY! I HAVE A KEYBOARD HERE!" and it works
> > fine from that point on.
> >
> > Same machine with F1[34] does not do that.
> >
> I've tried that. Normally what I do is hit the ESC key just before the
> graphical passphrase entry screen shows up so I'm in character mode for
> the boot up. I've been doing it that way for a long time. If the graphic
> screen shows up it usually means no keyboard, i have tried unplugging
> and replugging it in with no change. This morning I noticed that the
> temp readings were down into the 60's. It seemed that when the MoBo temp
> reading got to the high 70's it booted. Also I had tried my old PS/2
> keyboard and got the same results. In the past the PS/2 worked, allowing
> me to reboot and switch back. Might be a coincidence, but my previous
> board a Gigabyte booted fine consistently with the same keyboard as now
> with the ASUS MoBo.
> > On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 9:01 AM, Scott Castaline <skotchman at gmail.com
> > <mailto:skotchman at gmail.com>> wrote:
> >
> >     I'm now leaning towards hardware being the culprit with my boot
> >     with USB
> >     keyboard. I thought I had finally resolved it with setting USB to
> >     Legacy
> >     and disabling ACPI 2.0 Support in the BIOS, as it booted fine for
> >     a few
> >     days. I did one day have to reboot to get it to boot. Today it
> >     took me a
> >     half hour to get it to boot. I had even tried an old PS/2 keyboard
> >     which
> >     gave me the same results. I then switched back to my USB and went
> into
> >     the BIOS going through everything to see if something had changed
> >     as was
> >     the case one time before. When I exited with a save the system
> powered
> >     down and then about 10 seconds later powered back up itself and
> >     booted fine.
> >
> >     As a reminder my problem was that the BIOS reports seeing an USB
> >     keyboard and USB mouse. The BIOS then goes to a countdown to boot
> >     OS (to
> >     allow time to enter ASUS Express i guess) which I hit ESC to skip
> >     which
> >     does work then I had changed the grub.conf to not hide the menu and
> 15
> >     sec delay which that sees the Enter response from the keyboard and
> >     goes
> >     on. It's when it asks for my passphrase to unlock my devices that I
> >     loose the keyboard. I usually hit the ESC key when I see the screen
> >     backlight shut off and my lighted keyboard turns off and just when it
> >     lights up again, this will switch the boot screen from graphic to
> >     text.
> >     If it comes up to the GUI passphrase box my keyboard is dead. I also
> >     can't get it to powerdown at shutdown.
> >
> >     So basically I'm just putting my feelers out for other opinions
> >     before I
> >     start with exchanging the MoBo or RMA'ing it to ASUS. Also if
> >     MicroCenter will exchange it, what's your opinion whether I should
> >     stay
> >     with ASUS or change to another Mfg. MoBo.
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> > James P. Kinney III
> > I would rather stumble along in freedom than walk effortlessly in chains.
> >
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James P. Kinney III
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