Comment 21 for bug 58503

In my case, I believe the problem is that my motherboard is so old (a FIC-6110), that although Ubuntu sees it as ACPI compatible, it really isn't. Other problems I've had are probably also due to this old motherboard, which I plan to replace.
The Motherboard's BIOS has other problems in that, even with LBA turned on, it cannot handle drives larger than about 120gb, no matter what settings I put in for hard drive characteristics. Apparently, this MOBO & BIOS cannot handle the number of clusters (using LBA) on drives larger than about 120-130GB.
My workaround for my 320GB drive, was to partition it split into 30GB and 290GB and set the BIOS up as though for a 30GB drive and install Ubuntu, and later move the /home folder to the 290GB partition and say "the heck with it - it works now". Once the system is booted up using the 30GB partition, the OS (Ubuntu) can handle the 290GB partition where the /home folder is, and seems to be having no problems now. I'm up to Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon 7.10 now.

Thanks for asking.

John C Lord

----- Original Message -----
From: "Saïvann Carignan" <email address hidden>
To: <email address hidden>
Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2008 5:26 PM
Subject: [Bug 58503] Re: No response to keyboard input at prompt afterejecting CD-ROM

Thanks for your contribution to this bug report. I see that the last
release on which that bug could be reproduced is Feisty. Can someone
reproduce that issue with latest Hardy / Gutsy release? In my case,
using AMD64 release, I can't reproduce this bug with Gutsy or Hardy so I
suspect that this bug is not fixed.

** Changed in: usplash (Ubuntu)
     Assignee: (unassigned) => SaC/vann Carignan (saivann)
       Status: Confirmed => Incomplete

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No response to keyboard input at prompt after ejecting CD-ROM
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