On 12 Aug 2001 22:38:40 -0400, Rick Dunetz wrote:
> I've done a bunch of Debian installations and I have never seen the error
> message that comes up on my AMD Athlon 1.33 Gig machine (I also have a maxtor
> 40 gig 7200 rpm HD with a Windows 98 partition). During the boot disk there
> is an error message that looks like this:
>
> Keyboard: Timeout - AT Keyboard not present?
>
> Then when it asks me to put in the root disk and press enter...nothing
> happens. Probably because my keyboard wasn't recognized. I've tried several
> different keyboards and I even tried installing slackware 8...but to no
> avail. The same problem occured. Anyone have any suggestions? I would
> really appreciate it.
Do you have a usb keyboard? If this is the case do you have a spare AT
keyboard to get your install done so you can get usb support turned on?
--mike