Re: [GTALUG] No keyboard at boot?

[Peter King via talk]

Thanks.  Tried unplugging/plugging, changing ports, other keyboards; 
still nothing.  Will try looking at the logs when I'm back at the 
machine -- that is a good thought that just hadn't occurred to me.


On 10/10/23 14:39, Aurelian Melinte via talk wrote:
Try unplugging the keyboard then plug it back in. If it is USB, try 
changing the port. Try another keyboard. Try booting an USB stick with 
some other live distro then peek into the Arch logs.


On 10/10/2023 14:29, Peter King via talk wrote:


The saga continues.

While waiting for a replacement motherboard for my Lenovo T5, I 
hauled out a computer I had taken out of service about 16 months ago 
to have a working machine until I finally can install the 
motherboard.  But here's the thing.  When it boots up, I can use the 
keyboard and mouse at the BIOS screen and through most of the process 
-- but near the end, after enabling the network fails, it loses the 
keyboard.  The mouse stays connected.  So I get a login screen but no 
way to talk to it.  Same problem using other keyboards.  Eventually I 
figured out how to boot from a USB stick, and that gets all the way 
up with the keyboard, so it's something odd in the setup on the 
computer itself.  I haven't tried to ssh in, because at the moment it 
tries to boot into a static ethernet address which isn't available, 
and so network connectivity fails.


The system runs Arch Linux.  The "easy" thing to do is just 
re-install Arch and start with a clean slate, which is likely what 
I'll do, but if anyone knows a quick and dirty fix I'd at least be 
able to save some configuration information from the computer.  (Yes, 
I can do that from an Arch install USB by mounting / chrooting into 
it, but I'd rather understand the problem first.)


Any idea what gives?  Obviously a module for running the keyboard 
isn't being loaded somewhere...



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Re: [GTALUG] No keyboard at boot?

[Aurelian Melinte via talk]

Try unplugging the keyboard then plug it back in. If it is USB, try
changing the port. Try another keyboard. Try booting an USB stick with
some other live distro then peek into the Arch logs.

On 10/10/2023 14:29, Peter King via talk wrote:


The saga continues.

While waiting for a replacement motherboard for my Lenovo T5, I hauled
out a computer I had taken out of service about 16 months ago to have
a working machine until I finally can install the motherboard.  But
here's the thing. When it boots up, I can use the keyboard and mouse
at the BIOS screen and through most of the process -- but near the
end, after enabling the network fails, it loses the keyboard.  The
mouse stays connected.  So I get a login screen but no way to talk to
it.  Same problem using other keyboards.  Eventually I figured out how
to boot from a USB stick, and that gets all the way up with the
keyboard, so it's something odd in the setup on the computer itself. 
I haven't tried to ssh in, because at the moment it tries to boot into
a static ethernet address which isn't available, and so network
connectivity fails.

The system runs Arch Linux.  The "easy" thing to do is just re-install
Arch and start with a clean slate, which is likely what I'll do, but
if anyone knows a quick and dirty fix I'd at least be able to save
some configuration information from the computer.  (Yes, I can do that
from an Arch install USB by mounting / chrooting into it, but I'd
rather understand the problem first.)

Any idea what gives?  Obviously a module for running the keyboard
isn't being loaded somewhere...


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[GTALUG] No keyboard at boot?

[Peter King via talk]

The saga continues.

While waiting for a replacement motherboard for my Lenovo T5, I hauled 
out a computer I had taken out of service about 16 months ago to have a 
working machine until I finally can install the motherboard.  But here's 
the thing.  When it boots up, I can use the keyboard and mouse at the 
BIOS screen and through most of the process -- but near the end, after 
enabling the network fails, it loses the keyboard.  The mouse stays 
connected.  So I get a login screen but no way to talk to it.  Same 
problem using other keyboards.  Eventually I figured out how to boot 
from a USB stick, and that gets all the way up with the keyboard, so 
it's something odd in the setup on the computer itself.  I haven't tried 
to ssh in, because at the moment it tries to boot into a static ethernet 
address which isn't available, and so network connectivity fails.


The system runs Arch Linux.  The "easy" thing to do is just re-install 
Arch and start with a clean slate, which is likely what I'll do, but if 
anyone knows a quick and dirty fix I'd at least be able to save some 
configuration information from the computer.  (Yes, I can do that from 
an Arch install USB by mounting / chrooting into it, but I'd rather 
understand the problem first.)


Any idea what gives?  Obviously a module for running the keyboard isn't 
being loaded somewhere...
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