I have been fighting with this issue off and on for the last couple of months and it is the only reason that I'm still using a 2.4.x kernel. Every time I build a 2.6.x kernel it boots ok but the keyboard is not recognized. It detects the mouse on startup but moving it around doesn't get a mouse cursor on the screen. The real issue is the keyboard; once I can get a kernel up and running then I can dig into it and try to find out what is wrong. I mention the mouse because I think that it may have to do with Human Input Device subsystem (where both the keyboard and the mouse reside). In a 2.4 kernel I get:
keyboard: Timeout - AT keyboard not present?(ed) keyboard: Timeout - AT keyboard not present?(f4) in 2.6, as it is shutting down, I get: input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard on isa0060/serio0 The machine is a SuperMicro P6DBE motherboard with an Intel 440BX chipset, w/ 2 Pentium II processors (400MHz) and both the mouse and keyboard are PS2 devices plugged directly into the motherboard. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks, The River Rat -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list