Re: Keyboard no longer works at boot...

TuxaneSoft wrote:
 > >   I've been using the Slackware hdd of a dual-boot system for the 
past week+ exclusively
 > > until this morning. I needed to reboot to get into my opensuse hdd 
to look up a couple
 > > things I needed that I couldn't get from the Slackware side.
 > >
 > >   When I was done, I rebooted the system so I could get back to the 
Slackware, but for
 > > some reason my keyboard stops working just a second or two before I 
get the login prompt.
 > > Until now, it's been working perfectly, and of course it's working 
on the opensuse side as
 > > this is where I had to come to write this.
 > >
 > >   During bootup, I did manage to catch something about fuse module 
not loaded (whatever
 > > that is), and file system not clean (that's from having to hard 
boot unfortunately).
 > >
 > >   I've not uninstalled *anything* other than some apps here and 
there that I'd built and
 > > installed that were just simple things, nothing to do with hardware 
or the system/file
 > > system.
 > >
 > >   Anyone have any idea what happened or what I might can try to get 
back to using my
 > > Slackware side?

> I guess you gave the answer yourself, when you did a hard boot ,
> file-systems are likely not clean and some stuff won't get loaded.
> You should start from a cd/usb live system and do fsck on all you
> partitions.
> But I don't understand why you need to boot Suse to access it's files ?
> I can't think of any reason why it should not be accessible from Slack ?


My first suspicion on the keyboard issue is that the Suse drivers 
modified the hardware configuration in a way that the Slackware driver 
couldn't restore it to the normal power up state. When you restarted, 
did you power down the system? If not, shut it all the way down, pull 
out the power cord, count to 15, then plug the power back in and start 
it up. That should give it time for all the caps to discharge and return 
everything to the normal start up condition.

Then figure out what partition and type the Suse file system is and how 
to mount it. The normal mount point in a Slackware FS is /mnt/hd/. The 
command I would use for starters looks something like this:

$> mount /dev/hda2 /mnt/hd

The mount utility should be able to figure out the FS type on its own. 
If you don't want to change it, append "-o ro" onto the end to make the 
partition read-only.

Bob McConnell
N2SPP