CentOS

Hello Trevor
After much fiddling around, it seems that the machine needed a nvidia upgrade. The nvidia driver was failing and blocking the mouse and keyboard from loading.
Many thanks your help

Centos 7.6

Hello For no apparent reason, keyboard & mouse no longer work on startup when I arrive on the user login page. The keyboard & mouse work fine in the BIOS and when I select a boot OS and the startup logs do not seem to indicate an issue. Strangely, the keyboard capital & number pad buttons work fine ...

I have found this function in Rocky 8.5

I wanted to add that there is a very specific BIOS set up for DELL machines that seems to be the source of my problems. By following the Dell Ubuntu BIOS setup instructions below, I have been able to boot my Dell in Centos 7.9 & Rocky. https://www.dell.com/support/kbdoc/fr-fr/000141125/xps-13-9343-h...

I wanted to add that there is a very specific BIOS set up for DELL machines that seems to be the source of my problems. A related issue is described here. https://forums.centos.org/viewtopic.php?f=47&t=78989 By following the Dell Ubuntu BIOS setup instructions below, I have been able to boot my Dell...

Sadly, ;sync has not solved my issue.

Thank you Lightman. I'll try anything to get this working.

I have created a new USB boot key using the same method as above using
CentOS-7-x86_64-DVD-2009.iso

But I get the same errors. Any thoughts most welcome.

I am using a USB stick with

CentOS-7-x86_64-Everything-2009.iso

using
on a lenovo running Ubuntu 20.4

Sorry for not reading the FROM.