[vox-tech] Grub and USB Keyboard SOLVED

[Richard Harke]

On Thursday 29 July 2004 03:00 am, Ricardo Anguiano wrote:
> Richard Harke <rharke at earthlink.net> writes:
> > I installed Debian on a machine and also installed a new
> > motherboard. Now I find that I can't affect the boot sequence.  Its
> > as if I have no keyboard. I am using a USB keyboard and through a
> > KVM switch but it worked ok on previous hardware with SuSE 8.1 Now
> > have Debian testing and the loader is grub.  (Was lilo before)
> > Keyboard works OK in BIOS setup so BIOS is certainly USB aware.
> >
> > This doesn't affect operation of the current kernel but I
> > need to fix this before I build and install another kernel.
>
> Richard,
>
> This sounds a little like this problem:
>
>      http://www.x86-64.org/lists/discuss/msg05462.html
>
> HTH,
Yes, it was a BIOS setting   USB keyboard use BIOS mode instead of OS mode