About problems with the keyboard and/or touchpad, try disabling fast boot in the BIOS, or passing the "i8042.reset" parameter to the kernel command line.
It looks like the fast boot option won't initialize the keyboard controller (http://wiki.osdev.org/%228042%22_PS/2_Controller) into a state that the Linux kernel will be able to use by default.
About problems with the keyboard and/or touchpad, try disabling fast boot in the BIOS, or passing the "i8042.reset" parameter to the kernel command line.
It looks like the fast boot option won't initialize the keyboard controller (http:// wiki.osdev. org/%228042% 22_PS/2_ Controller) into a state that the Linux kernel will be able to use by default.