Dual booting linux/win 7 problems

[BrokenHalo83]

I finally decided to give linux a whirl. I already had win 7 installed as my main OS. I installed Linux mint 8 under the "install side by side" option. When the computer loads and comes to the OS selection screen, the keyboard doesnt seem to work so i cant select windows to load. Any ideas as to where i went wrong?

[Full Speed]

What type of PC you have and is your keyboard USB or PS2? I've found some olders PCs hard problems with USB keyboards before boot.

[BrokenHalo83]

It's a phenom II board. GA-790FXTA-UD5. But that seems to be the issue im having. I use a Razer Arctose KB and it doesnt respond when the OS selection comes up

[Toyoracer]

Do you have boot loader like grub installed? Or try another keyboard.

Mint 8 -known issues- comes with out windows installer

[BrokenHalo83]

Yea, it had grub imstalled. If mint 8 is no good. what linux should i give a try?

[yamawho]

Linux Mint is based on ubuntu so you could try another distro that isn't ...

Fedora - Mandriva - Mepis - SuSe etc ...

Try running it from the live cd before you install it as well.

I have found the they run better on intel hardware out of the box and AMD systems need tweaking.
This experience comes from running linux over the last 9 years ...

Also, I don't install the OS on the same hdd ... I find it better to add a 2nd hdd and run it off that.

Good luck

[technix]

Originally Posted by yamawho

Linux Mint is based on ubuntu so you could try another distro that isn't ...

Fedora - Mandriva - Mepis - SuSe etc ...

Try running it from the live cd before you install it as well.

I have found the they run better on intel hardware out of the box and AMD systems need tweaking.
This experience comes from running linux over the last 9 years ...

Also, I don't install the OS on the same hdd ... I find it better to add a 2nd hdd and run it off that.

Good luck

Hi, I dual boot XP and Linux and plan on doing the above when I get Windows 7.

I am not inclined to agree about differences in hardware although there are claims of newer AMD hardware having issues when the computer is in AHCI mode, I think.

I think a USB wired keyboard would normally not be a problem. Try another USB port and reboot. Does the keyboard work or not? If you still have a problem, maybe reinstall although you shouldn't have to.

I have installed a lot of distros and currently have five installed with XP as the other option. I don't use a fancy keyboard but haven't had a problem.

If you can, download a flavor of Ubuntu, Fedora, Debian, OpenSUSE LiveCD or whatever you like and try it out before installing. Good Luck.

[Full Speed]

Yeah a system that new shouldn't have problems with USB keyboards.

[MarkOne]

the board is a Gigabyte don't ask question, I have a lot of keyboard related problem with my P55 board, and it's related to the BIOS, so I suspect they can have the same problem in their AMD board too. I have to unplug and replug the keyboard to make it work, very annoying, and an other member change is motherboard for the same reason

the solution may be to shut down the pc and after restart with the power switch . if you just make restart it will happen.

[punk_zappa]

This same issue happened to me. I ran the Live CD and everything checked out working but once installed, keyboard did not work. Their forum did not help that much either. I would suggest you try PClinuxOS and see how it goes.