Comments on FC5 installs "hanging"

[Alan]

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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[Tim]

On Sun, 2006-09-03 at 12:39 -0700, alan wrote:
>  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.) 
The "dmidecode" command is useful for finding out information like that.

>  What is weird is that the BIOS reports "legacy keyboard"
> even if I
>  have a PS/2 keyboard plugged in. 
Shouldn't that be the case (PS/2 - legacy, USB - new style)?

>  (And it works with the bios screen, so it knows how to use it until
> it
>  hits grub.) 
I've seen some darn peculiar behaviours with PCs that are set in the
BIOS to use PS/2 keyboards, yet the owner only has a USB keyboard.
Sometimes the BIOS is accessible, with the BIOS emulating PS/2, but once
you boot a PC it's no longer emulating a PS/2 keyboard, the OS uses an
USB keyboard as an USB keyboard.  Othertimes the BIOS is inaccessible.

I wish they'd get their act together, they've been around for quite some
time.

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[Timothy Murphy]

Tim wrote:

>  On Sun, 2006-09-03 at 12:39 -0700, alan wrote:
> > 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.)
>  
>  The "dmidecode" command is useful for finding out information like that.
As a matter of interest, lshal seems to give more info
(at least on my ThinkPad T23) than dmidecode.

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[Tim]

On Mon, 2006-09-04 at 16:07 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote:
>  As a matter of interest, lshal seems to give more info
>  (at least on my ThinkPad T23) than dmidecode. 
I didn't know about that command, but you're right, it does produce lots
more output.  Not sure that much of it makes sense to me, though.  ;-)

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