[Mageia-discuss] Keyboard gone after update from Mandriva

Thu Jan 12 22:17:10 CET 2012

On 12/01/12 16:50, Renaud (Ron) Olgiati wrote:
+> On Thursday 12 Jan 2012 13:36 my mailbox was graced by a message from Claire
+> Robinson who wrote:
+>>> After updating from Mandriva 2010.1 to Mageia 1, I have this keyboard
+>>> problem:
+>>> The (USB) keyboard, which is recognized by the BIOS during boot-up, no
+>>> longer does anything when I get to the Grub screen. (So I cannot boot in
+>>> safe mode)
+>>> After which the computer freezes  displaying "Mageia" and nine dark polka
+>>> dots.
+>>> No such problem when I try to boot with a PS2 keyboard; with USB keyboard
+>>> booted perfectly under Mandriva.
+>
+>> Did you leave it a good while at that point? It can take a long time to
+>> rebuild kernel modules for a newer kernel.
+>
+> Couple hours (between 2 and 3)
+>
+>> I was going to say press escape to see the text boot process but you
+>> can't without a keyboard :\
+>
+> Exactly  ;-3)
+>
+> Cheers,
+>
+> Ron.
+
+You could maybe boot with the OS2 keyboard and alter the boot options to 
+disable the boot splash.
+
+I can't recall what the options are but it will either be something like 
+splash or quiet.
+
+You could then boot with your USB keyboard and see where it is failing.
+
+Claire
+