Re: USB Keyboard not recognized during boot

[Ray Harrison <rharrison rocketmail com>]

Thanks everyone for your suggestions!

It turns out to have been a motherboard problem. I have a Tyan 1837 Thunder board and, while in
99% of all situations (everything except for the GRUB loader kernel prompt) the USB kb works just
fine, it required a BIOS setting on the mb to be set:

Legacy USB Support = 'Keyboard + Mouse'

It works just fine now. Don't know why it needed to be set when it worked before without it being
set, but there you have it....

Cheers
Ray


--- Nigel Wade <nmw ion le ac uk> wrote:
> Ray Harrison wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > [RED Hat 9.0] During boot, the USB Keyboard isn't recognized until AFTER the kernel in the
> GRUB
> > loader is chosen. I am unable to use the keyboard to, for instance, enter into a command-line
> mode
> > for the server. A serial keyboard works just fine in the same scenario. How can I ensure the
> > functionality of the USB keyboard at the appropriate time?
> > 
> > Cheers
> > Ray
> > 
> 
> 
>  From my understanding of GRUB, USB keyboards are one of its shortcomings. 
> Some work, some don't. Is it the keyboard, the BIOS or the MB? - sorry, I've 
> no idea. If there is any configuration option in the BIOS related to USB and 
> keyboards, try the different options.
> 
> Failing that, you could try LILO. That might work with your keyboard.
> 
> 
> -- 
> Nigel Wade, System Administrator, Space Plasma Physics Group,
>              University of Leicester, Leicester, LE1 7RH, UK
> E-mail :    nmw ion le ac uk
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