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.... It's a new laptop, the touchpad works correctly in Fedora 18 Live (given the kernel parameters below), no hardware problems. I searched the web all around, and it's a known issue for several laptop models. The only solution, quoted everywhere, it is to append the i8042.notimeout i8042.nomux to the kernel parameters. The problem is that the latest CentOS6 kernel (2.6.32-358.2.1.el6.x86_64) doesn't appear to recognize these. Or it otherwise ignores them. I did append the parameters, but (unlike in Fedora) the touchpad is still dead. This laptop is to be used by a noob user who nee...

...work I might switch to syslinux so that I can edit the boot info in windows as well. Anyways I have entries like so #start of extlinux.conf default linux prompt 1 timeout 40 label linux kernel vmlinuz append initrd=initrd.img ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 vga=773 psmouse.proto=synaptics i8042.nomux label memdisk kernel memdisk append initrd=memdisk.img label windows kernel chain.c32 append hd0 0 #end of extlinux.conf linux boots just fine and so does the memory checker but windows doesn't boot from extlinux windows is on the first partition of the first sata drive, under linux it show...

...new XenPV issue? Interestingly, the crash is now sudden and (even at loglevel=7) without further information. The crash after the i8042/mousedev is (I think) unrelated to these devices, since the system crashes in the same way even with "i8042.debug i8042.nokbd i8042.noaux i8042.dumbkbd i8042.nomux i8042.noloop i8042.nopnp psmouse.proto=bare" added to the kernel command line (and then you don't see any PS/2 and mousedev). So something immediately after the mousy things triggers the crash: 0.2293541 io scheduler cfq registered 0.2295071 pci_hotplug: PCI Hot Plug PCI Core version: 0...