[ale] keyboard works in bios/grub but not after boot?

[jb at sourceillustrated.com (John Wells)]

John Wells said:
> Guys,
>
> Just rebooted my ubuntu box after doing a dist-upgrade last night, and now
> I no longer have keyboard functionality.  The keyboard works fine in the
> bios and in grub, but as soon as I select a kernel and boot it no longer
> responds. I first thought it might be related to the upgrade, so I dropped
> a live ubuntu cd in...same behavior...fine in grub and bios, screwed as
> soon as it loaded the kernel.


Was able to get the keyboard to work under Knoppix...now to identify the
key difference.  If you have any suggestions, I'm happy to listen.

Thanks!

John