on 18/11/2009 14:25 Travelling Particle said the following:
> Hello,
> 
> I am not sure if the problem is with USB, because the same hardware works
> fine with LiveCD. I will seek help here first, please feel free to redirect
> me to a better place for advice.
> 
> The system is 8.0-RC3.
> 
> I am booting off USB stick because I have to attach root partition on HDD
> with GELI. It all works fine, I am able to enter passphrase on the keyboard
> (there's only ukbd keyboard in the kernel at this moment, but I had tried
> with atkbd as well; I have also experimented with or without TEKEN with no
> difference). After root partition is mounted, system mounts other geli
> partitions on the same hard disk. It is right after the filesystems were
> mounted that the problem starts. The output on console at that moment starts
> to be interleaved with new lines symbols. After late boot stage completes, I
> see login prompt on console, but system acts *as if* I had just pressed
> Enter and presents login prompt again and again. The keyboard itself appears
> to be dead. If I choose to boot single-mode, behavior is the same -- I see
> multiple shell prompts as if I were hitting Enter repeatedly. I had been
> trying various configurations in the kernel for over 5 days now, and still
> couldn't make the console work on the system (I can login via network
> though).
> 
> The hardware is Nvidea ION-based Acer nettop. It does not come with PS/2
> keyboard connector and I cannot test it with any keyboard but USB. The
> keyboard itself I am using is Acer's standard one, and it works fine with
> LiveCD. I wonder if GELI might mess the things up, but the geli attachment
> process goes well, and all filesystems are attached just fine.

LiveCD is also 8.0-RC3?


-- 
Andriy Gapon
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