Booting F7 Installation DVD

[Dave Cross]

On 7/1/07, Jim Cornette <fc-cornette at insight.rr.com> wrote:
> Dave Cross wrote:
> > On 6/30/07, Karl Larsen <k5di at zianet.com> wrote:
> >> Dave Cross wrote:
> >> > I have a Philips Freevents X51 laptop and I'm having real problems
> >> > getting the F7 installation DVD to boot.
> >> >
> >> > It boots to the initial screen, where you press "enter" to start the.
> >> > installation, but at that point it seems that the keyboard is
> >> > unrecognised. Pressing any key has no effect at all.
>
> I had this problem back when first trying to install Linux (Severn, not
> sure which beta).
>
> The problem was due to a USB legacy setting which was set active. USB
> legacy mode locked up my laptop like you are referring to.
> I'm not sure if your BIOS would refer to it as USB legacy or USB
> keyboard. Anyway, having it set caused the laptop keyboard to not function.

Interesting suggestion. I did have a USB legacy setting in my BIOS,
but changing it from "auto" to "disabled" didn't change what happened.

Thanks anyway,

Dave...