keyboard does not work on boot

[Peter Czanik]

Sometimes keyboard does not work on boot. I experienced it also sometimes earlier, but comes up more frequently with the latest image. The touch pad works, so the machine can be easily rebooted, and then keyboard works fine.

[Roberto Innocenti (robyinno)]

This happen even to me and I have a report of the same problem from another person.
When I forget to left inserted in the sd slot my sd card for a few seconds during the boot, happen more and even the touchpad doesn't work.

I had this issue even in with Ubuntu 10.10 with Everun Note ( with Turion X2 processor), so look like a problem of kernel with Ubuntu 10.10 with some particular hardware configuration.

[DrEagle (dreagle)]

the fix is to add usb in modules for initramfs as follow :

modify /etc/initramfs-tools/modules and add

# USB keyboard at boot
usbcore
uhci_hcd
ehci_hcd
usbhid

then update-initramfs -u ill add (permanently) the usb modules, keyboard and mouse also.