Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 102538
Keyboard freeze at CD Test window, power-on required
Last modified: 2015-01-04 17:02:54 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Description of problem: With severn CD 1 in the CD driver of my HP Pavilion ze5250 laptop computer, I boot (or do power-on) and things proceed normally until the first install window (the one that allows me to test my CDs). At that time the keyboard and everything else freezes. Ctrl-Alt-Delete does not work. I must power-on. At power-on, under the same circumstances, the same thing happens. To fix: about midway through the bringup sequence, during initscript processing, I press and hold the ENTER key (thus causing many keyboard interrupts per second). I keep the key held. This always results in the CD1 test beginning, at which time I release the ENTER key. Tests of CD2 and CD3 proceed normally. Installation proceeds normally. This problem, and its fix, occur 100% repeatably. I had the same problem installing RedHat 9, shrike, on the same laptop a few months ago, and I resolved it the same way, by pressing and holding the ENTER key. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.put severn CD1 in CD drive 2.power on 3.wait for CD verification window 4.attempt to hit ENTER Actual Results: nothing Expected Results: CD1 testing should have started Additional info:
Does booting with 'acpi=off' help?
No, acpi=off does not change the symptom. I booted with severn CD1 in the CD drive. At the boot: prompt I typed linux acpi=off and hit enter. Booting began. At installation setup I received a box saying that ohci1394 was loaded. The next box was for CD testing, and the keyboard was unresponsive. I could not do Ctrl-Alt-Del. I had to power-off in order to recover the computer. The symptoms are the same as before, when I did not use acpi=off. I had installed severn by the workaround described in my original report, above; it still works fine. This additional note is in (belated; sorry) response to Jeremy Katz's question. Happy to try further suggestions. Happy to test boot floppy images or other workarounds you may want me to try. Richard
Richard, I have a HP Pavilion ze4540 while trying to install Fedora Core 1 I faced the same problem. The solution I came up with it to disable Legacy USB Support in the BIOS. So far everything else seems to be working fine (even the Microsoft USB Scroll Mouse). Hope it helps, Tomislav Drpic S.
still a problem in latest release ?
closing due to inactivity.