Bug 82855
| Summary: | Can't install Phoebe2 with no mouse attached to system | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Felipe Alfaro Solana <felipe_alfaro> |
| Component: | anaconda | Assignee: | Michael Fulbright <msf> |
| Status: | CLOSED RAWHIDE | QA Contact: | Mike McLean <mikem> |
| Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | high | ||
| Version: | 9 | CC: | marius.andreiana, redhat |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i386 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2003-05-25 14:57:00 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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This is fixed post-phoebe2 *** Bug 82722 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** *** Bug 83712 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** I'm going through Bugzilla closing some bugs that have been marked as Modified for some period of time. I believe that most of these issues have been fixed, so I'm resolving these bugs as Rawhide. If the bug you are seeing still exists, please reopen this report and mark it as Reopened. |
Description of problem: ----------------------- I have been trying to install Phoebe2 (8.0.93) onto my old PII 300 machine using only a keyboard (no mouse) by booting off from my SCSI CD-ROM (haven't tried booting off or installing from the net). However, just when "anaconda" begins to run, my keyboard stops responding. It seems the system is responsive as I can see the hDD led blink at some times, but I can't use ALT-F2 to get to a console or ALT-F4 to see kernel messages. At this point "anaconda" complains that no mouse has been found and lets me choose whether I want to perform a text-only install. But since my standard, Spanish PS/2 Microsoft Natural Elite keyboard has just stop responding I can't do anything. So, I rebooted and this time, at the ISOLINUX prompt, I entered "linux text" to perform a text-mode installation. However, the problem was the same: just when "anaconda" starts detecting the video hardware, mouse, et al, my keyboard stops responding. I have found that attaching my Logitech Wheel USB mouse to one of the USB ports fixes the problem and, in fact, I'm now installing Phoebe2 using keyboard and mouse in graphical mode. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): ------------------------------------------------------------- Phoebe2 beta (8.0.93)... I think this is related to "anaconda" as my keyboard is working just up until the moment "anaconda" is run. It seems a hardware detection problem killing the PS/2 keyboard controller. How reproducible: ----------------- Always Steps to Reproduce: ------------------- 1. Better if you can get to work on this on a machine similar to mine. 2. Make sure no mouse is attached, only a PS/2 keyboard. 3. Boot from CD1 4. The system will start booting, "anaconda" will run and, at that moment, the keyboard will not respond. Pressing NumLock won't toggle the keyboard led so, it's evident the keyboard driver is not listening. Actual results: --------------- Can't install Phoebe2 from CD-ROM with no mouse attached. Doing so, the keyboard becomes unresponsive. Expected results: ----------------- The keyboard shouldn't stop responding after loading "anaconda" while installing from CD-ROM with no mouse attached. Additional info: ---------------- My hardware: Intel AL440-LX motherboard Pentium II 300 Mhz 384MB RAM Matrox Millennium G200 AGP with 8MB Built-in PIIX IDE controller disabled by BIOS (both ports) Built-in floppy drive controller disabled by BIOS (no floppy drive on this machine :-)) Adaptec AHA2940-UW PCI SCSI Controller Quatum XP43550UW UltraSCSI Wide 4,3GB SCSI HDD Plextor PX-32TS UltraSCSI CD-ROM Yamaha CRW-4260T SCSI CD-RW HP STT20000 DAT SCSI Tape Microsoft Natural Keyboard Elite PS/2 3Com 3C59x NIC Realtek RTL8129 NIC I'm installing Phoebe2 by booting off my Plextor SCSI CD-ROM, with no mouse attached to the system. However, plugging a Logitech Wheel USB mouse makes the problem described above disappear :-) Please, don't hesitate to contact me for more info.