Re: [gentoo-user] Re: New mobo change

["J. Roeleveld" <joost@antarean.org>]

On Fri, October 18, 2013 05:33, Dale wrote:
> Bruce Hill wrote:
>> On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 04:40:52PM -0500, Dale wrote:
>>> Well, this is interesting.  I swapped out the mobo.  First, it has the
>>> UEFI BIOS thing.  That was interesting for sure.  I'm not complaining
>>> but not used to it and wasn't expecting it either.  Second, it works
>>> except for the third part.  Third thing is, no mouse worky.  It works
>>> in
>>> the BIOS but not in the OS.  I have gpm set to start and it doesn't
>>> work
>>> in a console or a GUI.  I tried everything I can think of, no mouse.  I
>>> had to swap again.  I'm back to my old mobo.  Here is the kicker.  I
>>> plugged the USB mouse into the old mobo, it works just fine.  It works
>>> in KDE, console etc.  It just works.  The only kernel change I made was
>>> for the chipset on the mobo.  I left the USB stuff alone.
>>>
>>> Instead of me posting a lot of worthless stuff, what do y'all need me
>>> to
>>> post?  Keep in mind, I'm on my old mobo and it works on here.  I got
>>> the
>>> kernel config tho.  It's a start, I hope?   I followed this wiki howto.
>>>
>>> http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/USB/HOWTO
>>>
>>> Thoughts?  What do you need to figure this out?
>>>
>>> Dale
>> Obliviously something simple, but why don't you throw your BB gun in the
>> truck
>> and come over so we can sight in the .44 magnum?
>>
>> Put all the stuff on the new mobo, boot with SystemRescueCD, see that
>> the
>> mouse works, take 2 aspirins, and let's go from there.
>
> That was my plan B, Sysrescue.  It wouldn't boot either.  It gets to the
> point where it is trying to find the USB stick, then errors out because
> it can't find it which is odd since it is plugged into a USB port and
> the mousey don't work from there either.  Thing is, it works just fine
> with the old mobo.  I actually tested it, mounted some stuff and
> everything.  Works fine on old mobo, errors out on the new one.  I also
> switched back to the legacy and desabled the UEFI stuff.  It still
> didn't work.  It does try to boot from it tho so it does see the USB
> stick at first.  It just can't see it later on.  Hmmmm.

Is USB-support ENABLED in the BIOS-settings?

Current (From last 5+ years?) BIOSs (and especially UEFI ones) should be
able to boot Sysrescue from USB.

If it can't, I would suspect USB being disabled, or the USB ports on the
mainboard being broken.

It might also be a legacy support setting that needs enabling/disabling?

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Joost