Fedora :: Enabling Keyboard During F11 Live USB Boot?
Aug 23, 2009
Back during the early days of live usb drives (F9) before persistent overlays were not ready for prime time, I created an approach to do persistence by injecting a special rc.local file into my custom live usb spin. This script mounts a file containing an encrypted ext3 filesystem using losetup which prompts for a password.
This scheme worked well for F9 and F10 but is now broken for F11 because the keyboard is not enabled at the time rc.local is executed. Obviously, all the work done to F11 for speeding up the boot time and moving the boot to the first console has broken my approach.
I am running Vista on my C: drive and I just got Fedora 11. I planned to dual boot Vista and fedora 11. I Downloaded the Live CD from the site (680 +- MB) and burned the files IN the .iso file to an empty DVD and CD. Shrank my D: drive and now have about 27 GiB wort of unpartitioned space. I booted from the Live CD. everything went OK until i chose Boot from the Boot Menu that came up. First it took me to a screen with the following message:
ACPI: expecting a [reference] package element found type 5. and then in went on to boot normally. Then when it reached the user login screen, I found that my mouse and keyboard were'nt responding and that there was no lights on any of the keys. I checked the USB cables and did a hard shutdown and booted from the Live CD again, but the problem persists.
i've enabled quotas for a user on my fedora 10 distro but whenever i reboot the machine the boot.log contains the following message :"Enabling local filesystem after every startup i have to login as root and issue the quotaon -auv command to reenable quotas.what causes this failure on startup ? is there a workaround to solve this problem ?there is plenty of free space on the root partition that quotas are enabled.
I could not find any way to enable dead keys on my keyboard on Lubuntu 10.04 via gui.I created xorg.conf by using X -configure command and tried to add followings into /etc/X11/xorg.conf but it did not work.
I'm having intermittent problems booting with my USB keyboard. Originally the problem was at the screen for entering my passphrase to unlock my LUKS volumes. The BIOS would recognize both USB keyboard and mouse, the BIOS passed off to GRUB with no problem and GRUB would take over the boot process. In the troubleshooting process I had changed grub.conf to show the menu with a 15 second display. ASUS BIOS also has a boot OS delay to allow access to ASUS Extra or hit ESC to skip the delay and then the GRUB menu comes up and I am able to edit the lines of boot commands and then enter to boot. I'll loose the keyboard when it gets to the point of entering the Passphrase.
I have changed the following BIOS settings:
USB Legacy: enabled (default Auto) APCI 2.0 Support: Disabled (default Enabled) My hardware is: MoBo: ASUS M4A88TD-V EVO/USB3 BIOS ver: 1601 RAM: A-Data 4GB DDR3 (2x2GB sticks) CPU: AMD Phenom II x4 965 PSU: OCZ Technology ModXstream-Pro 600W
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It had been working fine for about 2 or 3 days and then today it took a half hour to boot up. I had even tried an old PS/2 keyboard and got the same results. In the past that keyboard would boot and then I was able to shutdown change back to my USB keyboard and boot up fine. I'm wondering if I'm right in thinking that it's a defective MoBo. If so and I'm able to return it to the store (MicroCenter in Duluth, GA) should I just get the same as a replacement or go with another MoBo from ASUS, or go with another MoBo by another mfg? If I should go with the 3rd option anyone have any recommendations? I have had Gigabyte in the past but they only seem to last about 18 months and had issues with the 2 DVD drives (closing on their own after I opened them, that stopped after switching to ASUS)
I had also installed F14 when I still had the last Gigabyte MoBo which sort of blew up taking down the CPU and PSU about a week later. I'm now on the first week with the ASUS MoBo.
After my previous stint with 10.10 I've gone back to 10.04 because it boots in 20 seconds instead of 70+ and 10.10 didn't really seem to offer much new stuff that I need. Except one thing. When 10.10 boots, it automatically connects to whatever wireless network is set to Auto. 10.04 however, doesn't. I have to right click the tray applet and click on "Enable Wireless" and only then does it connect to the Auto networks. After a reboot, it's forgotten that I've clicked on "Enable Wireless" and I have to do it all over again.
I've found this thread that seems to describe the same problem and the only working suggesting is to use wicd instead of network-manager.
Does anybody know of a way to make it work using network manager? Do you know what command clicking on "Enable Wireless" runs - if I could just run that in an init script, problem solved. I thought it would be; ifconfig wlan0 up but that doesn't seem to do anything at all (wlan0 is definitely the right adapter)
When i boot the fedora image from a dvd i'm not being taken to the fedora live system screen, instead i see a bunch a words on a black screen (looks like DOS)...am i having compatibility issues or what? ive tried 32bit, 64bit versions as well as different desktops. does anyone have any ideas? my laptop is brand new: toshiba e205 running windows 7 ultimate..
I have Fedora 12 and I'm using it as a server and there's no keyboard. Everything works fine, except that I can't reboot. I can see the system coming up, but at the end it seems to stop / hang. Maybe something todo with gdm, I don't know!
After upgrading to natty alpha I enabled the nvida graphics drivers. Now I can't boot and get stuck on a purple screen, without grub. Can I with a live cd revert the drivers back to normal?
I already know what the problem is, which is that I have an AGP Nvidia graphic card. When I try to boot the live cd it freezes. I've done some research and I've already tried using "nouveau.noagp=1" as a Boot Option from the live cd. But it says unknown boot option ignoring. And it still fails to boot up. Im anxious to begin using Fedora.
When it is trying to boot...it also says IO APIC resources could not be allocated.
I get it to boot to the loading screen and it gets to what looks like 99% loaded and it just sticks, i have tried multiple downloads, different cds and did "verify and boot" just to be sure and it just sticks and does nothing?
Just read up that it's an issue for a lot of others as well, so i'm downloading the dvd to do a straight install from
I'm trying to install using live USB stick. The F15 live CD was downloaded and copied to the USB stick via liveusb-creator. The target machine has Award BIOS v6.00PG, I set the first boot device to USB-HDD. When I tried to boot it from the machine, I get the following error:
SYSLINUX 4.02 2010-07-21 CHS Copyright (C) 1994-2010 H. Peter Anvin et al ERROR: No configuration file found No DEFAULT or UI configuration directive found!
i have a usb mouse and keyboard and am testing booting without rhgb quiet on the previous kernel version. however the keyboard is not working at this point, which i only noticed just now.
Over the weekend my MoBo, MPU, & PSU decided to retire so I had to replace everything including memory. I originally had a Gigabyte GA-MA790FX-DS5 MoBo with Athlon II x2 and Corsair 800MHz $GB RAM. I used my current USB keyboard and USB wireless Logitech trackball which the wireless had issues, but I don't use that now. Now I have an ASUS M4A88TD-V EVO/USB3, AMD Phenom II x4 and A_Data 4GB DDR3 1333 MHz RAM. I still have the same USB keyboard which worked fine on the old MoBo and now have a wired USB mouse. I had installed F14 prior to the fried chips incident and all was working fine. With the new MoBo I have 2 issues as follows:
1. On boot both the USB keyboard and the USB mouse are detected by the BIOS, but when the screen comes up to enter my passphrase for my encrypted deviceshe keyboard is unresponsive. I have gotten it to work by hitting the "ESC" key steadily just before this screen pops up. The BIOS settings for USB seem to have only turning on Legacy USB devices option which seems to have no impact on this problem.2. When I shut down, the system does not power off and the display will show that the system is halted. All BIOS settings in regards to Power make reference to Sleep or Suspend modes, power mode after loss of AC power.can furnish the exact wording of all power related settings and USB per the manual
I'm trying to get FC13 running on a Toshiba SG20 - no keyboard, no monitor. grub.conf and the entry KEYBOARDTYPE=pc and I think that's where it's hanging. Can I say KEYBOARDTYPE=none ? There is nothing, that I can find, even on the gnu-grub site as to options for KBT.
I can attach the drive to my desktop - has screen and keyboard - and the system boots fine. However when I boot on my desktop I get the blue screen with the FC13 logo - semi circle - looks like a top laying on it's side.
Computer: Toshiba Satellite Pro L510 laptop, 10.10.This has always happened but I have gotten around it by time-out and putting my menu.list in order. When I first boot the machine (switch on for the day from computer being off) I get to the grub options to select a kernel and I have no keyboard. No up/down arrows so have to go with the kernel on top of the list (not always desirable).
When I get to the log-in screen if I hit restart and go back to the grub screen I have a keyboard and can select any kernel. If I login to the kernel I have full keyboard, no problem. If I then restart, I have keyboard at the grub list.
Nutshell: It is only when starting the computer fresh that the keyboard is dead at grub menu (and then only). Any time after that, once the computer has been switched on, if I restart I have keyboard at grub menu and can select different kernels. (Of course, if I switch the computer off and back on again, no keyboard ...)
I'm trying to install F11 in my new laptop [URL] and I'm unfortunately about to give up, but I want to give this option. What I want to do is use the live cd (on a usb stick) to boot on a text-only session. Supposedly the way to do that is type "linux text" on the boot prompt but the problem is that I can't even get there. After booting I get the grub menu with two options: boot, and verify and boot. Hitting esc doesn't bring me to the boot prompt. I can get to the grub menu, but I'm not sure what to do from there. And I can edit the boot and kernel options, but I'm not sure whether that will allow me to log in a text-only session.
I currently dual-boot Windows Vista and Suse 11.2 on my Gateway desktop machine. I'd like to try out Fedora in a triple-boot situation.
My trouble is that the F13 Live CD hangs during boot. I've checked the hashes of the downloaded ISO files, and done burns on multiple media. During booting with the Live CD, my box hangs and I have to use the physical power button to turn off the box.
I've tried the 64-bit KDE spin (my preferred choice), the 64-bit GNOME version, and also the 32-bit KDE spin, and all of them hang at the same point. Removing the "quiet" boot option shows that it hangs after setting up my built-in card reader. When I installed Suse 10.3 on this same machine, I had to use the flags "acpi=off" and "brokenmodules=pata_it821x". Would the syntax be the same if I wanted to try with those boot options with the F13 Live CD?
Using the ISO files in VirtualBox inside my working Suse install works just fine.
I installed the latest updates earlier today. Instead of restarting I just shut the machine down after updates were installed. now I can't boot into Fedora 12. I booted using the live cd and all my files seem to be in order except there is nothing in the boot folder. Is there anyway to reinstall boot/grub from the live cd? I do have a backup copy of a previous menu.lst.
I installed a copy of Fedora 13 onto my HDD yesterday and everything went fine until, for some reason, it stopped working. (Got stuck at the white bar while booting up). Well, I wasn't sure what the problem was so I decided to run the live CD again (which *is* a good CD, unless it somehow managed to destroy itself since yesterday) and I get "Could not mount root filesystem," sleeping forever. Hm.I haven't changed any of the hardware, and all the connections seem to still be good, so, I dunno... Any ideas on what could be the problem? Thanks in advance for any input.:UPDATE:Now my computer simply displays a list of repeating errors, each one like:Quote:
I am running F14. I have usb keyboard and mouse, very cheap but working. There is slight problem with keyboard when I boot machine with keyboard no usb port is working, when I plug it in after system loads it is working fine.
Code: [0.111940] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbfs [0.111986] usbcore: registered new interface driver hub [0.112080] usbcore: registered new device driver usb [1.950117] usb usb1: New USB device found, idVendor=1d6b, idProduct=0002 [1.950124] usb usb1: New USB device strings: Mfr=3, Product=2, SerialNumber=1 [1.950131] usb usb1: Product: EHCI Host Controller [1.950136] usb usb1: Manufacturer: Linux 2.6.35.6-48.fc14.i686 ehci_hcd [1.950141] usb usb1: SerialNumber: 0000:00:10.3 [1.951097] usb usb2: New USB device found, idVendor=1d6b, idProduct=0001 [1.951104] usb usb2: New USB device strings: Mfr=3, Product=2, SerialNumber=1 .....
If I change the keyboard shortcut for Open a Terminal in System > Preferences it will not stay in there if i log-out or reboot. When i log back in the shortcut is set to disabled, and I have tried different key combos and they give the same result. I am using Fedora 14 btw and hopefully you guys know of a solution. I tried making a custom command also using the gnome-terminal command but the terminal launches with a different directory other than my home directory when using that method.
I just bought a new Club 3D (ATI) Radeon HD 3450 (8xAGP) graphics card, but received with it some problems.My Ubuntu 10.04 installation would not boot any more. It just gave a blank screen while caps- and scroll lock were flashing on the keyboard.
I then installed 11.04 which works fine except being unable to play even 720p video smoothly (the card should be able to play at least 1080p). When I enable the restricted driver ("ATI/AMD proprietary FLGRX graphics driver") and restart, the system will not boot. It gets to the point where it displays the "ubuntu" sign with the five dots below (where the dots normally change color one at a time), they all change color immediately and then the system freezes.
I realized when I received the card that it requires a power supply of 300 W, whereas the one in my PC is only 240 W. Could this cause the explained behaviour? I am not too happy about changing the power supply, unless there is real reason to think that this is the source of the problems, since I know myself well enough to know that I will probably break something in the process.
Just recently started to use ubuntu live usb 10.10, Everything is good except some of the symbols such as the # is not the same as it appears on my keyboard, I was not asked for keyboard settings only when I boot up what language I want to use and if i would like to make a full install
When booting to the live cd, I have keyboard function enough to choose the proper entry to load os. The os starts loading and I can use keyboard to choose language, keyboard etc. About the time it gets to what time zone I'm in, it freezes. No mouse and no keyboard. I have tried this with both Ubuntu 10.04 and Mint 10. My hdd with Windows XP works fine. There are a lot of complaints and requests for help on the 'Net about this but no answers. I have Mint 10 on my main computer and have used Ubuntu for a year or so, meaning I have been able to load and use them with no problems. I have scoured my BIOS for any changes needed and can't find any. Neither USB nor PS2 keyboards or mice work. I have seen some posts about editing xorg.conf or the grub but how can I do that when I have no control after a second or two.
i have a hp dv6707us with windows vista and i'm trying to install fedora 10 x86_64 from a live cd, when i try to use the live cd it shows a screen saying that it will boot after 10 seconds, then appears a black screen with a loading bar with fedora 10 word next to it when the bar becomes completely white along with the word fedora 10 it doesnt happens anything and any indication of what could be wrong then i type enter and it reads the live cd for a while then a black screen with a blinking cursor appears and yet nothing happens i wait until i get bored and cancel the all the process.
I'm making life difficult for myself. Summary, I have a laptop with F10 installed on a portable harddrive (sdb 1-3, i.e., no logical volume) Works great, no complaints so I guess this reduces to a grub question; how do I edit grub.conf to boot an iso on sdb4? Fedora10.iso for example.
Yesterday, i just got my Fedora live DVD. When i tried to boot it from my CD/DVD ROM drive, it seems to hang when it's just about to finish loading. From one of the prevous threads, one of the members said that i had to have 2 partitions on my HD. Currently, i already have 2 partitions. Can someone give me advice on what to do??
