On Sunday 26 August 2007, Walter Dnes wrote: > On Sat, Aug 25, 2007 at 06:37:52AM +0100, Mick wrote > > > b)Plugging in an external keyboard, which is hopefully recognised. > > No, it's *NOT* a laptop. See > http://www1.ca.dell.com/content/products/category.aspx/desktops_inspn?c=ca&; >cs=cadhs1&l=en&s=dhs > > Last minute update... finally found something on Google. Someone had > a similar problem with Slax, and solved it by the boot line... > > slax noapic irqpoll acpi=force > > So I tried... > gentoo noapic irqpoll acpi=force > and I now have a functional keyboard. I notice that only 1 penguin image > appears at boot, rather than 2. Is the "noapic" making my "Dual Core" > (different from "Core Duo") act like only one cpu? > > One problem down and one to go. I can get a limited shell. It > doesn't have "lspci" or "fdisk". I want to see what shows up with > "lspci -v" and "fdisk -l". I have a floppy if that helps.
Can you copy over the binaries from another machine and see if they work? -- Regards, Mick
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