[WBEL-users] New install after up2date no keyboard

[Robert Moskowitz]

At 06:31 PM 12/30/2004, Jan-Albert van Ree wrote:

>If you installed grub

grub

>  or lilo, you should be able to pass boot time kernel
>options. Pass the option "single" to the -27 kernel.

I need some major help here.  what I thought was the way to do it causes a 
kernel panic.

A boot, I press e

there are three lines.  one starting with root, the second with kernel and 
the third with initrd

So I ASSuMEd you mean the 2nd line.

I edit that, getting into grub edit  the line is:

kernel /vmliknuz-2.4.21-27.0.1.EL ro root=LABEL=/

I have added 'single' after the / and before it.  Both resulting in the 
kernel panic.

If I escape out of edit with no changes, it boots without the panic.  The 
keyboard was working before the GUI came up, I pressed the escape key on 
the login line and some characters appeared ( >] i think), but once the GUI 
came up, the keyboard stopped working (the mouse works).

A couple of other points.  I thought I am running GNOME as the GUI 
(eventhough I also installed KDE,  was that a mistake?)  On the bottom of 
the screen I get four > symbols  a few spaces apart.  I seem to recall that 
there was some text between them prior to the up2date.

Advice?

>  This should give you a
>single login screen. Edit /etc/inittab and change the default runlevel to
>3. Save and reboot. Now you should get normal terminals after boot. Try
>starting X from there, so you can switch terminals to check for X errors to
>see why your keyboard isn't working.
>--
>Jan-Albert van Ree
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