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Re: GRUB with USB Keyboard
From: |
Matthias Granberry |
Subject: |
Re: GRUB with USB Keyboard |
Date: |
17 Apr 2001 10:35:16 -0500 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.090001 (Oort Gnus v0.01) XEmacs/21.1 (Capitol Reef) |
I seem to have the same firmware bug. It does the same thing for
DOS/windows up until something somewhere gets set and it lets me use
the USB keyboard. I should probably poke around and see just where in
the linux source things start working, but I have lent my usb keyboard
to a mac-user...
"Jochen Hoenicke" <address@hidden> writes:
> On Apr 14, Michael wrote:
> > GRUB will not let me use the arrow keys to select from the boot menu
> > until I first press a key on a PS2 attached keyboard.
> >
> > My version is 0.5.95 installed with Mandrake Linux 7.2
> > on a HP Pavillion 9870.
>
> Grub relies on the BIOS to access the keyboard and doesn't care about
> USB. It's probably a bug in your BIOS, or maybe this is a
> configuration option in the BIOS setup.
>
> Jochen
>
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