Try opening /var/log/messages when you are in the live CD and have a search for 'keyboard'. It may prove remotely helpful:)
This is my result: May 6 09:36:14 michael-desktop kernel: [ 5.770362] input: USB-compliant keyboard as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1a.0/usb3/3-1/3-1:1.0/input/input3 May 6 09:36:14 michael-desktop kernel: [ 5.793283] ezkey 0003:0518:0002.0001: input,hidraw0: USB HID v1.10 Keyboard [USB-compliant keyboard] on usb-0000:00:1a.0-1/input0 On Wed, 2009-05-06 at 11:05 +0100, Sean Miller wrote: > On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 10:59 AM, Michael Holloway > <mich...@thedarkwinter.com> wrote: > > Of course if you have no keyboard at this point (before x starts) then > > we can assume something more difficult to fix, like a problem with usb > > module or something. > > I have a keyboard in grub. > > It is when Ubuntu loads that the keyboard and the mouse disappear. > > Unfortunately the recovery mode is no different, they're "disabled" in > that mode too. > > I've loaded a Live CD and am looking at the filesystems from that. > But if I try to boot from any form of installed version I get the same > symptoms... as soon as the little twiddly "working" thing comes up > that's my keyboard and mouse gone, so I can't enter usernames, > passwords or anything... and same happens if I do a Ctrl-Alt-F1 or > similar during the boot up process... as soon as it gets to a certain > stage the keyboard just "falls off the planet". > > Ho hum, > > Sean > -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/