On Friday 15 March 2013 14:08:40 Alan Stern did opine: > On Fri, 15 Mar 2013, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Greetings; > > > > What modules do I need to make builtin in order to have a working > > keyboard > > > when the boot fails when the keyboard/mouse is this: > The question doesn't make sense. If boot fails, _none_ of the devices > in the system will work. > > Alan Stern The keyboard works during the grub screen session before selecting that freshly built kernel to boot. It fails while trying to mount a non-existent /dev/sde, and falls out 30 seconds later to a busybox shell prompt, it doesn't make sense that I would have no keyboard then. I figured you folks should have the path from: idVendor 0x045e Microsoft Corp. idProduct 0x0745 to a usable keyboard memorized. But then I think logically (for a 78 YO) :) Thanks Alan. Cheers, Gene -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) My web page: <http://coyoteden.dyndns-free.com:85/gene> is up! My views <http://www.armchairpatriot.com/What%20Has%20America%20Become.shtml> To be or not to be. -- Shakespeare To do is to be. -- Nietzsche To be is to do. -- Sartre Do be do be do. -- Sinatra I was taught to respect my elders, but its getting harder and harder to find any... -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html