[gentoo-user] Re: Long standing problem of booting thu kvm switch

[Harry Putnam]

Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com> writes:

> On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 11:58 AM, Harry Putnam <reader@×××××××.com> wrote:
>> However since I can access the bios thru the KVM switch, shouldn't
>> that mean I should be also able to access the grub prompt?
>
> I think that basically GRUB does not have USB HID drivers to know how
> to talk to your keyboard directly, so the Legacy/DOS/whatever mode in
> your BIOS makes the BIOS emulate a standard PS/2 keyboard from your
> USB keyboard. AFAIK. :)

OK, and that jibes right in with the start of my troubles, now
possibly over a yr when it started... I had been using a ps/2 kvm.

I bet the switch to usb kvm was the beginning of the trouble.   From
what you said, I'm thinking the fact that the old KVM was ps/2 would
mean that was how grub worked with it.

Grub is a very ancient program ... though I recall when linux users
relied on lilo.  But it seems development on grub has stalled quite
some time ago.