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From: alain.didierjean@free.fr
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Grub & USB keyboard
Date: Fri, 28 May 2010 07:33:47 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1275024827.4bff55bb99ab0@imp.free.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTin_Z4GRsnoFeUhELyQhX8GxCOcPAVQ_6Tgjraqw@mail.gmail.com>

Selon Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@gmail.com>:

> On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 9:42 AM,  <alain.didierjean@free.fr> wrote:
> > I have an USB keyboard that works fine thru evdev. At boot time, it allows
> the
> > BIOS to be called and set.Right after that grub displays its menu but just
> > ignores key strokes...
> > Any known solution ? In other terms, how can I 'teach' grub to read a USB
> > keyboard at boot time ?
>
> In your BIOS there is probably a setting for USB Keyboard, try to set
> it to "Legacy" or "DOS" mode, something like that. Then it should work
> in GRUB.
>

Stupid me ! I didn't find the option in the first place because one has to
scroll down to be able to read it !
Thanks all, it's working now.

--
~adj~





      reply	other threads:[~2010-05-28  5:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-05-27 14:42 [gentoo-user] Grub & USB keyboard alain.didierjean
2010-05-27 15:18 ` Florian Philipp
2010-05-27 15:45 ` Paul Hartman
2010-05-28  5:33   ` alain.didierjean [this message]

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