[ale] SUSE CD's don't work-keyboard dead

Robert Reese ale at sixit.com
Sun Sep 16 21:59:06 EDT 2007


Hi Paul,

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On 9/16/2007 at 5:55 PM Paul Cartwright wrote:

>ok, I trashed my system and now I want to reinstall openSUSE.
>I downloaded the i386, the X86_64 DVDs and neither would work. the SLED 
>DVD I got in my linux magazine also wouldn't work.
>When I boot from them, my keyboard is dead. I can't move or change the 
>menu item that is selected ( default is boot from hard disk).
>Debian & ubuntu Cds worked fine. something on those CDs is killing my 
>keyboard.

Okay, dumb question: have you poked around your BIOS?  IIRC, I had the same problem with the SuSE stuff and fixed in the BIOS.

Hope that helps,
Robert~

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