I have this old Dell Inspiron 2650 with a dual boot Fedora 12 and XP and
I want to upgrade Fedora to 20. When I boot from the installation dvd I
get this message:
[ 13.167548] i8042: Can't read CTR while initializing i8042
then it continues to boot and I get to the first installer screen
(welcome to Fedora 20, select language) but as one might expect, I can't
select anything neither with the mouse nor with the keyboard.
I get the exact message when I try to boot up Fedora 12 and I have the
exact problem, neither mouse nor keyboard works. They work before booting
up Fedora (e.g. in the bios) and also in XP, so it's not (entirely) a
hardware problem. I don't remember if it ever worked in F12, but at least
I was obviously able to install it.
I did do a google search on this and some posts said it's a false,
inconsequential error, others provided kernel patches, others messed with
the bios. Only thing I can do in the bios is change the boot order, set
the time and disable the parallel port.
Any suggestions? Some kernel options? Thanks!
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