Alan McKinnon ha scritto:
> On Thursday 13 March 2008, b.n. wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> After a hard freeze on the Gentoo partition of my Macbook Pro laptop,
>> I rebooted, and I found this dreaded message:
>>
>> /dev/sda4: UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck MANUALLY.
>> (i.e., without -a or -p options)
>>
>> And it asks me my root password, or ctrl-d to skip the fsck. Problem
>> is, my keyboard seems totally unresponsive. So I basically can't boot
>> into my system.
>>
>> I'm currently downloading a livecd to bypass this, obviously, but I
>> wonder - if there's some other solution
>> - something I should be aware of before fscking the filesystem?
> 
> try edit the kernel line in the bootloader to add the parameter "single" 
> to the end of the kernel line. 

Tried that, it seems it doesn't work (it seems to ignore it, but I am
not sure. I'll try again).

> Hopefully bypassing the rest of the boot 
> up runlevel stuff will leave you with a working keyboard. I can't 
> really help much further, as I don't know how the Macbook keyboards are 
> connected or wired up

I think Linux sees it as an USB keyboard, but I don't know for sure.

m.
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