YDL 1.2 server, new G4, no usb keyboard response

Subject: YDL 1.2 server, new G4, no usb keyboard response
jlhagen@collins.rockwell.com
Date: Thu Sep 28 2000 - 12:49:09 MDT

Hi all,

we have a new G4 with usb keyboard, mouse and zip drive along with YDL 1.2
champion server. We have a minimal installation of the MAC OS still
installed. I can boot from the CD and things load fine. I can see the
'loading kernel ...' message and console messages scroll by. I noted some
below: 

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usb: ... assigned device no # 1

usbcore: usb devise not responding, giving up ( error = -101)

hda:hda: lost interrupt
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These don't seem like a good omen, but the kernel loads and we get to the
YDL installation screens. Yeah. BUT the keyboard does not work. I have
tried to unplug it and plug it back in but nothing seems to work. I have
tried moving the ramdisk and vmlinux images to the MAC partition and boot
using the infamous 'boot hd:,yaboot.tbxi' . I'm not sure why I don't have
to specify a partition number but the loader does it's job and I see
loading kernel ..... . The kernel loads and I see the same console messages
so I expect trouble and I get to the same spot at the beginning of RH
installer program and the keyboard won't work.

I keep reading about benh's kernel so I replaced the vmlinux from YDL 1.2
that I moved to the MAC partition with vmlinux-2.2.17pre20-ben3.gz but it
seems to crash during the loading kernel.... part. Does it require a
complimentary ramdisk image to work correctly????

I've also read about the boot loader associated with the lost interrupt
errors that we are seeing but I don't understand how a boot loader would be
involved there. yaboot has done it's job the kernel was found and loaded.
Oh well.

I would appreciate any help that I could get. We have a cd burner in our
labs so I could try lots of different things.

Thanks,
John

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