On Thu, 2008-03-13 at 09:56 +0100, b.n. wrote: > Alan McKinnon ha scritto: > > On Thursday 13 March 2008, b.n. wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> After a hard freeze on the Gentoo partition of my Macbook Pro laptop, > >> I rebooted, and I found this dreaded message: > >> > >> /dev/sda4: UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck MANUALLY. > >> (i.e., without -a or -p options) > >> > >> And it asks me my root password, or ctrl-d to skip the fsck. Problem > >> is, my keyboard seems totally unresponsive. So I basically can't boot > >> into my system. > >> > >> I'm currently downloading a livecd to bypass this, obviously, but I > >> wonder - if there's some other solution > >> - something I should be aware of before fscking the filesystem? > > > > try edit the kernel line in the bootloader to add the parameter "single" > > to the end of the kernel line. > > Tried that, it seems it doesn't work (it seems to ignore it, but I am > not sure. I'll try again). > > > Hopefully bypassing the rest of the boot > > up runlevel stuff will leave you with a working keyboard. I can't > > really help much further, as I don't know how the Macbook keyboards are > > connected or wired up > > I think Linux sees it as an USB keyboard, but I don't know for sure. > > m.
Most probably you compiled HID, USB-HID and/or your USB-controller as kernel modules, which cannot be loaded prior to mounting /.
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