[ale] Boot issues

[Scott Castaline]

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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