hello, the subject is a little misleading, it boots, but the keyboard wont work. let me tell you the story... assembled a dual machine PIII500/i440bx; took a disk from another machine (debian woody) to test if it comes up (the dual machine doesn't have it's own disk yet); the POST is ok, I can enter the BIOS, make changes, etc...; however, at some point during booting, the keyboard stops working, so I cannot login; it was a kernel compiled by me (2.4.10), so I thought it was my mistake; ok, booted 2.4.9-686 (debian), same behaviour; if I boot in single user mode, it suddenly works! withn every kernel! the keyboard is ok (it's the one that I use now), the other system which the disk was taken from is an mendocino 633 with the same chipset, i440bx, except is uniprocessor. I do not have a clue about this, it's like the kernel has no driver compiled for the keyboard. Oh, and I forgot to mention, the kernels boots on their system, and the keyboard is standard (PS2). Anybody on this?
dragos