Unlucky install report
Mikael Eriksson
miffe-miffe at telia.com
Thu Apr 14 11:08:28 CDT 2005
Peter Damoc wrote:
> On Thu, 14 Apr 2005 02:17:08 +0300, Matt Zimmerman <mdz at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 12:26:15PM +0300, Peter Damoc wrote:
>>
>>> Well... first let me apologize for not taking a pen and paper and
>>> writing
>>> it all down as is it actually happen, I'll just use my poor memory.
>>>
>>> 1. I've arrived home, entered my XP installation, verified that I don't
>>> have anything important on C: drive.
>>> 2. Rebooted the machine with Hoary install CD in my drive.
>>> 3. Went and got a bowl of popcorn and the last of my Stella Artois
>>> 4. Hoary booted and it said that I should hit Enter, I did and nothing
>>> happened. What the heck! I tried entering something else, no luck, my
>>> keyboard was dead. BTW i have a wireless USB Logitech iTouch
>>> Keyboard and
>>> mouse. After trying various things I found a solution: change the
>>> USB slot
>>> in which the keyboard was plugged. (I shouldn't have had to do that!)
>>
>>
>> There isn't much that Ubuntu can do about this; your BIOS has control
>> of the
>> keyboard at this point.
>
>
> Strange... because the keyboard worked in preinstall (I could enter BIOS
> by pressing DEL key)
>
Do you have USB Legacy support on in the BIOS?
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