Comments on FC5 installs "hanging"

[alan]

I have seen some comments about people complaining about FC5 installs 
hanging on boot.  I have not paid attention to it because I had other 
worries.

Then I upgraded my home machine.

Booted the disc.  It goes to the prompt and "hangs".

But it is not a hang.  Took me about 30 seconds to realize that for some 
reason the system was not seeing the USB keyboard.  Once I put a ps/2 
keyboard on the machine, everything worked fine.

The motherboard is an Intel P4 3ghz hyperthread.  (Actually made by 
Intel.) I don't have the model number at the moment.  (It would require 
opening it up.)  82875P is the chipset. Might be a clue.  I can get more 
details if anyone wants to track it down.  (Answer off line as I get 
drowned out by list mail and the filters hide a lot of it.)

When I can reboot and get into the BIOS, I will try to find out more. (I 
have 2.4 gigs of updates to go!)

What is weird is that the BIOS reports "legacy keyboard" even if I have a 
PS/2 keyboard plugged in.  (And it works with the bios screen, so it knows 
how to use it until it hits grub.)

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