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Old 09-08-2003, 01:20 AM   #16
generic_moron
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Originally posted by Rodrin
Just out of curiosity what results do you get if you boot from the CD with bare.i with the noprobe or even the nousb options? I simply wonder because the keyboard obviously works to start off, and doesn't get taken out until the kernel actually boots.

In reply to the other question about using usb.i with a CD: Do you mean that you tried the usb.i kernel from Slack 8.1? I ask because I don't believe there is a kernel like this in 9.0 (I think this may be because the bare.i kernel, and probably the other kernels as well, are supposed to have usb covered). If the answer is yes, then I can tell you that you could use the 8.1 CD and boot from the usb.i kernel by simply typing usb.i at the boot prompt, and yes it would be possible to create a Slackware 9 install disk that booted from such a kernel, but it is quite a bit of trouble to make your own bootable install CD if you have never done it before.
I've tried booting off the CD with nousb - the keyboard still doesn't work. I haven't tried noprobe yet though.

The usb.i is probably from 8.1... I figued it was worth a shot. I don't have 8.1 on cd and there's a 3gb download cap per month here.


Saffsd: I've toggled all the USB keyboard switches in my bios - there's only "enable usb keyboard" and "assign irq to usb", IIRC. I've tried both of them in every combination possible.

I think I'll try and find my old redhat disks, I seem to recall them working with this system.

Thanks a lot for your help, and I'll be sure to use Slack next time I upgrade.
 
  


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