Description of problem: If 'noprobe' option is used during RHEL4 installation, we don't have any USB keyboard and mouse functionality. How reproducible: On a platform that has usb keyboard and mouse (no ps/2), start RHEL 4 installation with noprobe option. This fails on all architectures.
With RHEL4, noprobe is really starting to imply more of "noprobe". There are finer grained options for specifying if you don't want just, for example, storage or network probing. nonet - don't load network drivers nostorage - don't load storage (scsi) drivers nousb - don't load usb drivers nofirewire - don't load firewire drivers (not relevant for rhel) noprobe - the combination of all of the above.
That's good to know. Just to be sure. which option is used to prevent usb- storage from loading, nousb or nostorage?
nousbstorage is a specific option that catches just usb-storage (and actually, it doesn't get caught by nostorage... which is probably a bug or at least a misfeature :). nousb will cause nousbstorage since you can't load usb-storage without an hcd.