Re: Problems installing on AMD Athlon 64 system
On Sun, Dec 18, 2005 at 12:23:06PM -0500, Aaron Stromas wrote:
> Yesterday I wasn't able even too boot the netinst CD. This morning I
> made a liiiitle progress, but not much. I burned a new netinst CD and
> got the installer to come up. It turns out I was celebrating too
> early: as soon as I got to the language selction screen both my
> keyboard and mouse stopped working. It is one of those wireless
> keyboard/mouse combos. I suppose, I could try with a wired keyboard...
> any other suggestions?
Add acpi=off to the boot options. Seems to fix that problem on many
systems.
Also the option of changing the legacy usb support option in the bios
sometimes helps. Some systems prefer it on, some prefer it off.
Len Sorensen
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